...I'm also playing Magic the Gathering on the 360 ;D
There is no deck construction
I am playing a fuckton of Koei games right now, especially since I just got a new PS2 and bought several of them for like $5 or less. I'm playing Dynasty Warriors 5 (360), Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (PS2), Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (PC), Dynasty Tactics (PS2), Nobunaga's Ambition (PS2)i know you can turn off combat in romance of the three kingdoms 11, but in all the others (maybe not 9) i'm pretty sure you have the option of skipping it. i found battles to be pretty tedious in 7-10 so i usually skipped them, which is pretty great if you like the management component of the game. also, if you like 8, 10 is basically the same thing but better. after having played 7, 8, and 10 a bit, i think they're all pretty terrible entries in the series. i think the idea is very good - play as any character from the time period - but aside from their NUMBERS, there is no difference in how any of them play or what they can do. some characters get story events that you can watch, but they don't really affect anything and they're only there to remind you that you are playing a game based on an old book. there's also very little to actually do in the games. you can do work for your lord, which requires you to hit a button from a menu and watch numbers go up (or if you are the lord, order people around), talk to friends, which requires you to hit a button from a menu and watch numbers go up, or train, which requires you to hit a button from a menu and watch numbers go up. if your war stat is high, you'll fight a lot of battles. if it's low, you won't. there is literally nothing else to do.
Dynasty Warriors is by far my favorite out of these, since the battles of ROT3K always seem to be my least favorite part. I really like the management portions but then I get into battle and pretty much lose everything no matter what. I'm sure that'll quit if I keep playing and get better but it's very frustrating. Dynasty Warriors on the other hand is a lot more beating shit up. I wish there was a game with all the aspects of ROT3K but the battles of DW.
I only started Dynasty Tactics yesterday, it was interesting but it feels a little less....impressive? I don't know, but the gameplay is pretty good so I'll play some more of it. Nobunaga's Ambition looks good but it seems like both times I tried to play it it just pissed me off and I went to something else. First it was that the tutorial was horribly boring and useless so I shut it off and went to some game I hadn't played yet. The second time I accidentally didn't save the officers I just made and even though that was my fault it was too frustrating to deal with. Oh well, maybe I'll have a third try this weekend.
...I'm also playing Magic the Gathering on the 360 ;D
11 has the best system for any of the romance of the three kingdoms games. everything takes place on the same screen; there is no transition from world map to battle map, everything takes place on the same map and on the same turn as your civil actions, which makes battle completely dynamic. allies and enemies can join and leave battles in the middle, civil actions you take can have repercussions on battles, and actions you take in battle can have effects on nearby cities (for example, destroying a dam or some of the city's buildings). battles are so much more open and there are so many more posibilities than in any of the other games in the series. it's just really unfortunate there is no multiplayer because otherwise rowain and i would have TORN IT UP by now.
also, which nobunaga's ambition game are you playing? there are two for the ps2, iron triangle and rise to power. rise to power is sort of like the older romance of the three kingdoms games, i haven't played much of it, but iron triangle is a lot like romance of the three kingdoms 11 with a slightly different system. the one thing that's nice about it is that soldiers don't necessarily die when you lose them in battle, they can regenerate, which allows you to build a momentum as you conquer cities. instead of taking a long time to rebuild your army after every time you take over a city, your soldiers will regenerate so you can immediately go back to fighting. this eliminates a lot of the really tedious downtime in the romance of the three kingdoms games.
I've also been playing Vagrant StorySo have I, got to be one of my favourite PS1 games even though I only discovered it last year or something.
Berserk:Millennium Falcon Arc
There's a super dodgeball on DS? :O Soooo, I'm hitting EB soon.
you too grunthor, if you haven't already go watch gamecenter cx (in fact everyone do this regardless)
i've not played the ds one but i really love super dodgeball advance, it is the type of game that sounds awful until you play it
Strikeforce sounds kind of interesting, I might look into it. I am actually going to try reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms soon, it should be on its way to my house right now (you can download it but I want a hard copy to carry with me).
Theres also some system where if both characters attack then the weapons are locked and you have to tap the X button till you can kinda push them off which stuns them and allows you to initiate a 10 hit combo.
-FFX | Upto the Cloister of Trials for Shiva, but for some reason I'm finding it rediculously easy to complete now... apart from Blitzball, I hate that minigame...I loved playing Blitzball, sometimes I would just turn FFX on just for that.
Little Big Planet - I always play a little bit of this when I get bored of my other games, plan on making another level.. takes a while though.
Did I add your PSN yet? I'll play your levels. LBP is my life away from life.
the next thirty are mindnumbingly bad (i struggle to think of a game with a worse script), and then it picks up for the last three."Reimi, my hand is glowing! I knew that meant we were the chosen ones!" *hero goes into depression for half the game*
Blitzball mini-game - if they made an entire sports game of Blitzball I would totally play it, it's a sad truth but I would.Your not the only one. Seriously FFX wasn't the best game but it had some nice gameplay and Blitzball was pretty awesome for the first 30 levels, then after that you pretty much decimated the rest of the teams if you recruited the right people.. Wedge specifically.
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for PSone (one of the only games I actually play, along with a couple other RPGs and a couple Mario and Zelda games; anything else pretty much bores me to death).
I've been playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup again since the v0.5 release a month ago and I'm gonna beat it this time I swear to god
DAMN YOU for introducing me to a fucking addictive dungeon crawler.
Your not the only one. Seriously FFX wasn't the best game but it had some nice gameplay and Blitzball was pretty awesome for the first 30 levels, then after that you pretty much decimated the rest of the teams if you recruited the right people.. Wedge specifically.
What your saying is it's fun, is it linear?
I am thinking I might play Armored Core 4 or the sequal, or otherwise Dynasty Warriors Gundam 1/ or 2. What should I expect from either of these titles.
But anyway, randomly started F.E.A.R again and even more randomly FFX-2, still haven't beat FFX yet :O
It loosely follows the RotTK books, which I guess are loosely based on historical china, but not quite. Otherwise some of the characters would have 1 stage scenarios, Pang Tong for instance.
I'd take Historical > Gundam any day, mostly 'cause I'm used to it all.
Never been a Dynasty Warriors or RTS type game guy myself..Have they made a Dynasty Warriors RTS? I think that would be kinda neat. I love me some RTSes.
Besides the "age" old memories of Age of Empires II
I played the demo for Red Faction today and REALLY want to buy it. The demo was really fun. I think Red Faction might be a good game.
Bought myself the GotY edition for Morrowind, and I'm patching it up with some mods, mostly gonna be the Tamriel Rebuilt mods which are in production. They've done 2 of the 6 planned sections to build the Mainland Morrowind, and that's already a fair bit of the landmass.Holy crap I bought that just 2 days ago too! Only I can't seem to get into it much yet. Hours of Oblivion have spoiled me.
brown, are you really going to medical school?
I just discovered MAME. Been playing through Metal Slug in coop. So awesome.
i think i remember hearing it was one of the worse harvest moonsIt was. I played it, it was awful. Aparently the first one is a lot better.
while not being the worst
Holy crap I bought that just 2 days ago too! Only I can't seem to get into it much yet. Hours of Oblivion have spoiled me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKjm18_cdMDid you play Overture first? If not you will probably miss out on some significant plot details.
Penumbra: Black Plague. Great horror first-person adventure game. Lots of puzzles and it's freaky as hell. Pretty impressive graphics for its time too.
BlazBlue, newest fighting game created by the same guys that made the Guilty Gear series.Really? What are your thoughts so far? I'm very interested in hearing what GWers think of the game.
Cheers to anyone that plays it.
Bubsy the Bobcat - you had Mario I had BubsyWhoa I can't believe someone else liked this game besides me...
Trying to use up the last month of membership on WoW, but haven't had much to do after hitting 80. Been playing a bunch of old games, like speed-running through Super Mario Bros 1 and 2 and the first Legend of Zelda for the NES. May go back to Super Mario Bros 3 or a few of Megaman 1-6 games, or maybe LoZ Oracle of Ages/Seasons, or FFV.
Not interested in playing wow but I am curious as to how long it took you to reach lev 80.
dead rising
this shit is fucking hard
If I were to take the time that I played, I would have to say it took me about a month and a half to hit 60, and then I quit playing for a while. When I came back (when I got my hands on the Burning Crusade), it took me another month or two to get to 70. And since I got Wrath of the Lich King, it took me a little over a month and a half to get to 80. I wish I was one of the people that could go through and hit 70-80 in a week, but I wouldn't find much use in it as I couldn't see myself working with multiple characters.
however, there's something weird about the game me and my friend found, that makes the part with the soldiers much much easier. basically, you can pick them up and just throw them (the move where he just lifts people over his head and hunks them over) and well, they die in a hit from that. always. the only problem is when there are 3 of them ganging up on you, but otherwise it makes killing soldiers so much easierHoly shit, if that works I will love you as I've been stuck on that extra time bit for ages...
Fight Night Round 4. Very cool man,great graphics and gets quite hard toward the final but I love upper-cutting people.Hey, I've been wondering about that game... I hated the slow menus in Round 3 (EVERYTHING had to load) and the gameplay was, overall, too slow for my enjoyment. Has anything about those two items been changed?
Fight Night Round 4. Very cool man,great graphics and gets quite hard toward the final but I love upper-cutting people.
I just recently replayed Crisis Core:Final Fantasy VII and watched the OVA last order.I guess next in the compilation time line is the original Final Fantasy VII just one question if you don't mind should I play the Play Station version or the PC version?
Yo get the PC version and chuck in the Phoenix Resurrection Project or whatever they call it these days. I know it went from Jenova -> NPC Reconsruction -> Phoenix Resurrection I THINK? It replaces all the shitty little chibi models with properly sized ones (they did the battle ones first, and then remade the others from scratch), but it's only 90% complete or something so I dunno if you wanna go with that. I'm playing it with PRP and yeah it's def. a lot... idk, nicer to look at. You could chuck in The Saint's High Resolution patch too if you want to play it at 1280x1024!
One thing I don't like about FNR4 was that dumb stat stuff between rounds. Call me retarded, but I liked the cleaning up mini-game of Fight Night Round 3 better.I hate the training games in FNR4. The original Fight Night still has the best training modes and was the most fun. Seriously my legacy mode guy is so shit compared to the people I'm fighting as I can't do the training properly.
Europa Universalis 2 which is a buggy trainwreck (70% of the time savegames just don't load unless you do it JUST RIGHT) but I love it anyways, just for the sheer open-endedness of it.Did you ever play Europa Universalis III? I was thinking of maybe trying it but everyone says it has a MASSIVE learning curve and I just don't have that much time for a game right now.
Also, Insurgency. It's an amazing mod for the Source engine. It's super-realistic Middle-Eastern gameplay. Right now it's got some issues, but they have a very active fanbase and the developers actually listen to them, so the next big update will hopefully address all the major ones. I recommend it to anyone who likes FPSes that aren't terribly arcady!
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It's only so hard because the controls are so abysmal. They are for 360, anyways. Guns are impossible to aim and useless, the camera swings around like an ornery drunk (causing your attacks to go off in wild directions) and the button layout is just not good. There's also the minor fact that half the game contains 100000 swords and baseball bats everywhere and the other half contains... A BENCH or DIAMONDS which are useless weapons.
Also pre-ordered Batman Asylum special edition (it comes with a full size batarang). Game on!i'm really looking forward to this but it comes out like a week before i go to college where i don't have a 360 :[
i just got an r4 the other day, and now i'm playing Hotel Dusk on someone's (i think hundley's???) recommendation. it is very good so far! love the noir atmosphere
im playing nothing until worms armageddon 2 comes out for PC
yeah well i'm playing worms armageddon 2 on the xbox and i am so pissed that i didn't know there was going to be a pc version because otherwise i would have waited so i could play with my gw-bros >well the official status of the PC version is "TBA" so I wouldn't hold my breath that it is going to come out any time soon
also i'm playing haunting ground because i finally found a copy ;D
well the official status of the PC version is "TBA" so I wouldn't hold my breath that it is going to come out any time soon
Pokemon Yellow to Pokemon Crystal to Emerald to Diamond.
GOTTA CATCH EM' ALL AM I RITE? LOLOLOLOL.
The only ones I found worth playing were the original Red/Blue games and that was for Pokemon Stadium on the N64 which was amazing.
nice~ Mediamolecule released the Ghostbusters costume / sticker pack today. They were just going to have the four ghostbusters and some stickers. It didn't seem too cool. Then at launch they announced the Slimer and Stay Puft Marshmallow Sack costumes! Looks awesome! Guess that's what'll be in my ps3 tonight.
i just got an r4 the other day, and now i'm playing Hotel Dusk on someone's (i think hundley's???) recommendation. it is very good so far! love the noir atmospherei don't think it was me. i played a little bit of hotel dusk and didn't find myself particularly wowed by it. i should give it another chance sometime.
You're better off to keep LBP in the PS3 than even bothering to return to Eat Lead: it doesn't get any better towards the end.
I've been playing Prototype. I've gotten through the game once, so I think I'm going to go back and put it on Hard and see how that works out. I enjoy the mindless fun; it's great stress relief.
The hero gets plenty of points, Angelo is the one that barely gets any from what I remember
I'm considering getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for my friend. She mentioned it and I thought I'd buy it for her as a surprise, but is this game any good?
The Movies. This game is overlooked, it's seriously fun and just so many things you can do. Plus the hilarity of the movies animations you can make. I made a 15 scened movie and it took 3 years and $180,000 and completely bombed because I released it during the depression and action movies just not the thing to see. It had some critical acclaim but that didn't matter when the movie didn't make it's money back and made me lose over 300,000 and almost put my studio under haha.
Downloading Tales of Monkey Island Episode I - Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
Apparently they're trying to hype Monkey Island suddenly by rereleasing Secret of Monkey Island in new graphics and voice overs... but it's only for 360 arcade and not PC yet? It's coming to PC... but giving a console exclusive to a PC game is kind of odd imo.
This game so far seems meh. It hasn't made me laugh yet, and yeah it is shittily made. I had to turn down the graphics by 3 points for it to run smoothly. It also does kind of suck it's episodic. If you have to pay in bulk for the whole deal, why not just launch it as a solid packaged game from the get go? Unless they're not finished the other parts? We'll see though, it might have potential to be an alright MI.
Ahhhh seriously...I was so excited for this...
Also, I've played a lot of Oblivion, but I stopped suddenly after I got bored with my character. Maybe I'll pick it up again when I have a better rig.
i cannot believe how good shin megami tensei: nocturne is. i can't believe i missed this game. i've been told for years how good this game is by internet people and my friends and i still skipped it. why did i skip it????? this is one of the best games i have played.
how good of a pc do you have, ryan? I've been playing final fantasy xii and dragon quest on my computer at playable speeds. it might work for you with shin megami.
i saw it in gamestop the other day used for $49.99 :(i got it for $30 on amazon. get it. it is one of the best rpgs.
i was gonna get it but damn $49.99 for an old ps2 game
I'm currently working on Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. It's a cool cross between a platformer and tetris attack which is pretty addictive and quite difficult as well. I'm really enjoying it so far!That game... I did the entire first world no troubles and was like "Huh...this games a bit too easy..."
Yeah I was seriously disappointed with Last Remnant. sounded cool from the early info then it turns out to have the limpest dick characters and dull story ever
i downloaded the rom of majora´s mask. its such a good game. well designed and decently written too. probably the best video game plot ive seen.
i totally agree with you. What's funny is I have heard a lot of people say it is the worst 3D Zelda game. I do not see HOW it could be.yeah, i really like how "dreamy" and "melancholic" it is. Oot and apparently TP (i havent played it) try too hard to be "badass". i like more dreamy stories about kids and masks and big falling moons and astronomers than killing the baddie for the princess.
i totally agree with you. What's funny is I have heard a lot of people say it is the worst 3D Zelda game. I do not see HOW it could be.
playing crysis warhead
I like it fine I guess but the graphics system or whatever is shit because my new comp can't run it on gamer or enthusiast without sticking and I supposedly fit all the requirements
Link's Awakening will always be the best so fuck off with everyone else's Zeldopinions.Agreed. Link's Awakening was my first Legend of Zelda game so maybe it's a Final Fantasy 7 effect going on but that game is so good. The first time I beat it I actually cried as all my friends (especially Bow WoW) disappeared forever :(. I was also like 8 so it's okay for me to cry...
Link's Awakening will always be the best so fuck off with everyone else's Zeldopinions.I agree with the above statement 100%.
AA is the killer in the settings. Set it to off.
im playing the breath of fire series and I'm surprised at how capcom got away with making the same game so many time in a rowthe only good one is dragon quarter, and it is one of the best games on the playstation 2. you can probably get it for $3.
Currently replaying the Ace Attorney series, but its starting to get a little slow at case 2 in Justice for All
JFA was my favorite, it'll pick up.i do like the last case of JFA (2nd steel samurai case iirc) but overall it was my least favorite game
edit: oh wait REplaying so nm you know this probably
i do like the last case of JFA (2nd steel samurai case iirc) but overall it was my least favorite game
favorites order is Trials and Tribulations, Apollo Justice, 1st Game, JFA
i do like the last case of JFA (2nd steel samurai case iirc) but overall it was my least favorite game
favorites order is Trials and Tribulations, Apollo Justice, 1st Game, JFA
I'm playing fallout 3, its pretty glitchy but its fun. Its also quite gorey, I think I had a nightmare inspired by it recentlyHey, can I ask what's so fun about Fallout 3? I'm trying REALLY HARD to enjoy this game but, like, damn, I think I'm missing something.
I sort of got addicted to fall out 3. and once I got the explorer perk I've been everywhere in the game! The expansion packs are nice but.....I don't like how after lvl 20, you stop gaining experience and can't level up anymore.. It was a sad day when I reached it.Get Broken Steel, it raises up the level cap to 30.
also really bored so playing fable the lost chapters since i only beat the original.
Get Broken Steel, it raises up the level cap to 30.
I have the ps3 version, are the expansions up for download on that and is it free?They all cost cash, and unfortunately none of it is on PS3 anyway.
Playing Doom 3 on hard, and it's just after Midnight here. It's made me jump a few times, and I'm pinning this on a few things, mostly 'cause the game is really dark most of the time, and that zombies seem to appear from anywhere. Having not played it in months I've forgotten where most of the buggers come from.
I think the reason is I'm a total cheapo and Fallout 3 if you get used to the combat, dialogue etc etc. is literally months worth of game. and for me that's hugely important. I suppose I'm easily pleased, BUT I've spent so long on Fallout 3 it's just kind of second nature. It's probably worth a lot more than most games these days. imo
I also got Trine (http://trine-thegame.com/site/) which is a pretty badass puzzle based pseudo-3D platformer in the vein of The Lost Vikings. Give it a try.
You can give them to Peyj. I don't remember how, but the game even tells you to give him one when you find the 3rd or 4th one.Ah, I figured it out. Thanks.
Go into Jade's backpack and click the PA-1, maybe it's in there.
I'm playing Bible Adventures for the NES. Amen.
Wow I just found out that Yakuza is one of the most underrated PS2 games that I have ever played
first time i played deus ex i maxed out swimming because i needed it first and i figured i could level up the rest later. as it happens, swimmings useless.i picked the carry any box - strenght. turns out to be very, VERY useless. started the game over to pick & max combat strenght and slashed my way through the game.
Wow I just found out that Yakuza is one of the most underrated PS2 games that I have ever played. I am loving it a lot, I mean the game is an action RPG where the battles are like beat-em up style combined with skills that can be learnt from gaining experience and theres random encounters but I love the battles so I like RANDOM ENCOUNTERS IN THIS GAME, I usually hate random battles no matter what RPG I'm playing.
first time i played deus ex i maxed out swimming because i needed it first and i figured i could level up the rest later. as it happens, swimmings useless.yeah there's that place in the second mission where you can swim but besides that is there anything???
now deus ex is a game that would be excellent in the source engine
Start to play Professor Layton And The Diabolical box PS I love my Flash Card.Damn is this out? I gotta get some fuckin picarats.. I am so low on picarats right now you have no idea
...but it's too long a game to replay.
Trying to play the English version of Dissidia (or should I say THIS-ISSHIT-IA :naughty:)And it's so damn boring don't know how I ever liked it before cant believe I was looking forward to that crap could barely finish a level in Zidane's story before falling asleep.Looking for a game to play now will probably play one in the topic I made.
Heh, I got Dissidia yesterday and I found it kinda fun. Screw the story mode, I only did it for a little while. Screw story. I don't play games for the story!!
Anyways, I might only be enjoying it because I can play as Garland (my favorite FF villain) and kick some nancy pretty boy ass. F UUUUU Sephiroth. Cloud of Darkness though....man... pretty tough. And who is this Jecht guy? Why the hell is Jecht so strong? I've never heard of any Jecht, especially not some Jecht who can kick Garlands ass. Screw that.
The microfibral muscle enhancement comes in handy a couple of places. I know it lets you use a back entrance into Castle Clinton (though there are better ways to get in there unnoticed), and I remember it coming in handy a few other places - then again I do a fair bit of box moving/platform building during my average replay, so it might just be that I choose to play it that way.no i'm pretty sure its useless
no i'm pretty sure its useless
Well, UPS just delivered my copy of Arkham Asylum, and I also just found out I don't have to go in to work again until Thursday... I'll post some impressions of the full game later, I'm hoping it lives up to the hype.
Don't get your hopes up, its a batman game after all...its a batman game with 91% on metacritic
i never used any of the enhancements unless i knew there was a recharge droid or whatever around. i'm a hoarder.
i never used any of the enhancements unless i knew there was a recharge droid or whatever around. i'm a hoarder.yeah seriously, that + save on every occasion sounds crazy.
I've been playing Mass Effect, but now that the Policenauts translation is out, I think I'll switch over to that game. For anyone that knows Snatcher, Policenauts is pretty much like that. Mass Effect is great, but I've been looking forward to the Policenauts translation for years.
If anyone is interested, the translation patch for Policenauts (Playstation version) is located on this website: http://policenauts.net/
Just got a psx memory card and I am trying to get digimon world to load but it keeps fucking freezing. if it doesn't work in a few more tries i am going to play blitz 2000 instead.
Man my copy of digimon world doesn't work anymore and I tried torrenting it but the copy I got had really bad video errors :(
Oh well though it's way too hard at the beginning anyway :welp:
I made a really badass custom Mario character on Soul Caliber IV last night!
Really? Show me! SHOW ME!no offence but it's SC4 it's going to be nothing like mario. i don't get that stupid stuff. besides adolf hitler beats that easily (i did it). :fogetcool:
I got Eternal Sonata today (I know...) because I really wanted to play a JRPG (I know..) and all I have is a 360. It's kind of awful and cringe worthy so far but I'm enjoying it which is good. I've got a feeling it'll be a fairly forgettable gaming experience but it won't be terrible to the point of not wanting to play it. On the upside it's very pretty visually.
I bought this, too. It was the last time I wasted money on shit like this. Bye bye! See that feeling you've got that this is a terrible piece of shit and a waste of time? Use that feeling! Go trade this game in and use the money for something that isn't terrible.you are the first in gw to declare that about eternal sonata! congratulations! yes, it's an awful game.
no offence but it's SC4 it's going to be nothing like mario. i don't get that stupid stuff. besides adolf hitler beats that easily (i did it). :fogetcool:
I've just been playing Half-Life 2 as well, it's been a fun game so far. Ravenholm was creepy as hell
Haven't tried Portal yet, but gave Team Fortress a go. I fucking suck at that game, man.
The whole idea of BR's would be completely ruined if that ever happened.
to me, the BR is what makes Halo so fun and competitive,, if you know what you're doing.
tropico 3 demo
it's pretty good, animation is more than a little stilted unfortunately (soldier's guns don't even have a muzzle flash, etc)
Alyx Vance
She is the most annoying NPC in the history of the acronym.
Yeah, I am gonna be buying HeartGold because I had gold when I was younger (got silver at some point but it was much later). I think it'll be v. good, i don't care if it's SAME OLD SHIT pokemon is fun old shit and I will play it.
man gold and silver BLEW MY MIND, even moreso because i was playing it untranslated on an emulator. i was really hanging out for a gba remake because i think pokemon games are suited for the micro. do they really take advantage of the FULL POWER of the ds or do you get longer battery life or something?QuoteThey don't really use the ds features other than like, giving you silly apps you can use on the lower screen or giving you the ability to handle fights faster using the lower screen as a command menu and choosing by touching
but it's just that, imo, the ds games somehow end up having better design than previous pokemon games
i mean it managed to keep me interested until i beat it, it must be better than the other onesQuoteI bought my DS solely for Diamonds and Pearls. HeartGold and Soul Silver excite me very much because Pokemon Gold/Silver are definitely the best Pokemon Game/s. I just hope they manage to capture the CHARM of the original.
man gold and silver BLEW MY MIND, even moreso because i was playing it untranslated on an emulator. i was really hanging out for a gba remake because i think pokemon games are suited for the micro. do they really take advantage of the FULL POWER of the ds or do you get longer battery life or something?
How about switching to no MMO?
:)
I finally got my DS today.Now to buy a flashcard.I wonder what I should get.
THIS IS ON MY MUST GET LIST:
Contra 3
FF Crystal Chronicles Echoes Of Time
FF4 DS
FF3 DS
Mario Slam basketball
THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU!
Metroids DS
If you don't mind could you guys tell me if these games are any good?
Oh yeah also forgot to mention Im getting Kingdom Heart 358/2 days and that new Dragon Ball Z rpg.I just checked recently and saw that DQ5 AND 4 ARE ON DS,I am so getting that.Whats wrong with The World Ends With You I was playing it on my friends DS and it seemed awesome.I don't seem to find the DS version of FF4 all that fun,(Prefer the origional),but its still a remake of one of my favorite games so I have to get it.what about the Shin megami Tensei Devil survivor is that any good?
IGN says it's "a great game."It's a damn good game, just the "good" cars handle terribly while the "bad" cars are like dream rides. I'm actually seeing a lot of people complaining about it, so there's definitely an issue of some sort.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/102/1023587p1.html
Oh yeah also forgot to mention Im getting Kingdom Heart 358/2 dayswhat the fuck is with that title? what does it mean?
the world ends with you just kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but you'll like it probablyi wrote this great post on another forum about how devil survivor is a bizarre japanese remake of gothic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDz0A2tz7E&fmt=18), but the forum deletes all topics that haven't been posted in for a day so it's gone. i haven't played either game in a long time so i can't remember all the details, but the gist of it was that they are both games in which factions compete for the direction that society will be rebuilt in within a self-contained microcosm. also they have basically the same plot. trust me folks, it was a great post :fogetbackflip: damn good post.
devil survivor is awesome i totally forgot about that
Oh yeah also forgot to mention Im getting Kingdom Heart 358/2 days and that new Dragon Ball Z rpg.I just checked recently and saw that DQ5 AND 4 ARE ON DS,I am so getting that.Whats wrong with The World Ends With You I was playing it on my friends DS and it seemed awesome.I don't seem to find the DS version of FF4 all that fun,(Prefer the origional),but its still a remake of one of my favorite games so I have to get it.what about the Shin megami Tensei Devil survivor is that any good?Don't get one of those knockoff R4s if you want to play The World Ends With You (why you would ever want to play it escapes me, but then again it is you.)
Don't get one of those knockoff R4s if you want to play The World Ends With You (why you would ever want to play it escapes me, but then again it is you.)
(Suikoden Tiekries doesn't even work with it)It actually does, but it's the most generic awful RPG i've played in some time anyway (you'll probably love it.)
canabalt rules!!!!!!!!THIS, i fucking hate this, it kills me 90% of the time, its even gotten to the point that i purposely hit obstacles to slow myself down enough to make shit like this easier... i wish it the screen would zoom out or something as you got faster, so you get a better chance at making it past these windows and some of the other crap later on.
the only thing i screw up on is when you have to jump through a window. it only happens sometimes but its only like a very small opening to jump into, and i always miss it.
i wrote this great post on another forum about how devil survivor is a bizarre japanese remake of gothic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDz0A2tz7E&fmt=18), but the forum deletes all topics that haven't been posted in for a day so it's gone. i haven't played either game in a long time so i can't remember all the details, but the gist of it was that they are both games in which factions compete for the direction that society will be rebuilt in within a self-contained microcosm. also they have basically the same plot. trust me folks, it was a great post :fogetbackflip: damn good post.i bet it uwas the not so great post
hundley i had the same problem, epsxe worked like a charm for me before but when i tried using it again recently shit didn't work. like, i used to be able to play monster rancher by mounting ISOs and using them as the discs, but now this doesn't work anymore. seems like half the shit that used to work doesn't anymore, how in the world does an emulator go BACKWARDS when it comes to compatibility??actually it turned out that i am id;iot and the place i was getting my roms had some fancy stupid iso compression method that i mistook for some new iso format. it's called ecm and pretty much all you need is ecm tools to un-ecm the files. maybe this is the problem you were having too?????
dude you can get a gamecube with everything from gamestop for $30, you got fuckin ripped off if you bought a ps1 for more than $20
I would recommend against anyone ever doing this. I did it one year for my nephew and ended up getting a defective system. We returned it several times but never got another model that worked, so I ended up giving my nephew mine.
actually it turned out that i am id;iot and the place i was getting my roms had some fancy stupid iso compression method that i mistook for some new iso format. it's called ecm and pretty much all you need is ecm tools to un-ecm the files. maybe this is the problem you were having too?????
also i have been trying to emulate ps1 games but i can't seem to get the damn emulator working anymore. it's kinda strange. i have all the plugins and shit and at one point epsxe ran well for me but now it doesn't run anything anymore at all and i can't figure out why. this is an unfortunate scenario because my ps1 is busted and my ps2 doesn't read ps1 games anymore for some reason, so i am unable to play all those games. A GAMING TRAGEDY :(you are not missing anyth(http://pub.gamingw.net/37686/har%20haha.png)
Shonen jump Heroes ( i think #2?) is the best game ive ever played for DS. its in Jap so its a little shitty not to read it but man its a sickly fun game on wifi.
Finally bought Bladestorm for the 360. Been meaning to get it for a while since I played the demo idk how long ago. It's a little repetitive, but it's v. fun. I really think this game is what Dynasty Warriors should be--you can actually have some level of control over the rest of your army instead of them occasionally leaving you by yourself. I wish the AI would be just a little better, but to be fair they only neglect you when you fail to follow the flow of battle (which it shows what cities are struggling and whether it's attack/defense) so it's only fair. I'd say my only big complaint is that fighting outside of a group of soldiers is kind of hard, which is definitely more realistic, but sometimes you've just got to ditch your team to get to the base commanders and get them out of the way. Maybe one day Koei will put out a game that does a better balance with all of this, but all in all I really like this game so w/e!
just got Kingdom Hearts 385/2 Days and all the time I play it I keep wishing it was on the PSP. It literally does nothing but drag this game down by being on the DS.
I hear it's a bad game regardless of graphics
It's been getting good ratings and is #1 on Gamefaqs so I would like to know where did you hear such rubbish.(must not be KH fan)
Are you trying to say it's bad.... I think it's one of the best games for the DS and the controls aren't that bad ether. They must of put a lot of work in this game because I never seen a DS game have this much good looking 3D graphics Sure a PSP could do it better. but if you do really good 3D for a DS game you set the bar and if you did it for PSP you accomplished nothing other then you made another 3D game for the PSP.
What I'm trying to say is if it was for the PSP it would be nothing special. Having it on the DS set it apart from the rest of the games and makes it easy for it to be marketed. .
but then again KH has a fan base so it really doesn't need to go this route but guess what? They did.
Neverwinter Nights 2 its alrightI heard a lot of people say that Mask of the Betrayer(or w/e the first expansion is called) is one of the best PC RPGs around, though I can't say for myself since my pc can't even run it.
I was wondering if the expansion is a new game or if its just some added quests and content because I started out the original game like an idiot and now I'm gonna have to play it again later.
Still playing Kingdom Hearts 385/2 Days and have to say it is the worst in the series. Even that crappy cardgame one was better.
God damn, and I was hoping this one was going to be the sequel to the crappy card game.
I figured the 385/2 was the number of cards you could use.
But my SD cards all broke at once so I'm playing my PS2.
I'm finally going to beat Beyond Good and Evil. (there are only 3 1/2 dungeons, and this game is still too long)
I'm also trying to remember if there is any reason left to play Makai Kingdom after the first round (I'm right on the second round and I don't see any, but there's a lot I don't remember about that game).
God damn, and I was hoping this one was going to be the sequel to the crappy card game.
I figured the 385/2 was the number of cards you could use.
I dunno if I'm missing the boat or something but I picked up the platinum Gears of War that came out a while ago, (i got it for 20$ new) and so far I hate it!Nope, that's pretty much it.
I was unaware it's 3rd person shooter, which is the worst thing ever, and pretty much all of the gameplay so far has been me running up to a barricade, pushing A to get behind it, and then peeking out and shooting every few seconds.
I kinda blew through the tutorial too so I didn't really pick up the buttons quickly, but if I'm missing some huge gameplay piece please tell me!
Get all the vehicles.(My favorite was the skull one) Lv your self up to 9999 and do it alll over again with reincarnate.
Never actually touched Dynasty Warriors. It's never appealed to me. Maybe I'll rent it sometime.
[spoiler]this is hidden spoiler text[/spoiler]EDIT: Holy heck the boss in Chapter II is a freaking nightmare. Doomed my entire party on the first turn with no way to cure... all because of the fight that comes before it :/
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see like this?
Cool huh.
Rented and just beat Prototype Can't see my self playing it on hard... It gave me trouble on normal. and I beat the game 1 sec before the nuke Detonated after I died about 4 times and failed about 12 time till I Saw he had a week point in all his attacks. Also his Critical mass attack is a good time To light the fucker up.
You just have the change your tactics a little on hard. Elizabeth Grenee was an absolute pain the first time on hard, because I couldn't get away with being as loose on aiming and timing as I was during the normal playthrough. The only really frustrating parts were the forced vehicle segments, because it is hard to adapt your playing style when you're stuck with just the vehicle controls.
Queklain? Get a party of chocoboes. Choco-meteor clears him out in about 3 turns even if he sleeps most of them. (this is going by the psx original)
In fact I think most of the story missions until chapter 3 had me throwing hordes of chocoboes at my foes.
Just got done playing the new bayonetta demo off the Jap. PSN store BTW all the talking is in english.
Now I can't wait for it to come out.
wal mart will be open lt
Demigod is dota except with worse multiplayer capabilities and less content
From what I've seen HoN is better so far, dunno about the other dota-games
Playing GTA Chinatown Wars on PSP it's just like the DS version I think it's alright.:> Why didn't I think this would happen? :woop:
Neverwinter Nights 2 its alrightall 3 expansions have new campaigns, but only Storm of Zehir and Mask of the Betrayer have other added content afaik. I haven't played the third expansion, but the first three campaigns are all good if you can update to the latest patch and have a fast enough computer.
I was wondering if the expansion is a new game or if its just some added quests and content because I started out the original game like an idiot and now I'm gonna have to play it again later.
I've been playing Dead Space. It's the first time I've genuinely been scared by a video game. Scary as hell man.Dead Space was my favorite game of 2008. One of the few games that made me want to play it a second time immediately after completion.
Tekken 6. Scenario Campaign is pretty fun, almost like T3's old Force mode.
Also, theres to many characters.
I was annoyed with the LV panels too but eventually you just have so much space it doesn't matter. It only sucks early on, so stick to keyblade and save magic using for later in the game when you need it. Though on Proud Mode you'll probably have to stock heavily on Cure casts
it really was such a letdown after EU3 :(I played it when it came out and it was boring then, but there's been a million patches and an expansion so I thought it might be playable. Nope, it's still boring garbage.
uprc buddy you know what this means
I played it almost nonstop still doing challenge mode, max out weapons and grabbing all the collectibles like I do with Every Ratchet and Clank game (still need my RYYNO 5
How hard is it? Is it anymore difficult than Tools of Destruction? I was pretty surprised when it turned out to be fairly easy across the whole game (Cept on the second runthrough, that actually is difficult), 'cept for the final boss which follows the R+C standard of being difficult unless you know the attack pattern well (Or are just blind lucky, which I've never been in the frst 2 games), unless you obtain the Ryno4Ever,
I think it's alot harder then any other Ratchet & Clank game. The last boss on hard had me on edge of death and barely any ammo left.(I did die few times but when I won it was by the skin of my teeth)
BTW The Rayno 5 is bad ass( I don't realy mean bad ass because of it's power in fact I think it sucks because it is really useful on ground units but air units it sucks) Also I Think challenge mode is easier Then hard in some aspects. maxed out wepons can shift the balance easily.
I'm downloading it at the moment, is it any good?Yeah I played through it all earlier in one go, I liked it a lot
I just finished Half Life 2, HL2 ep 1 and HL2 ep 2 finally after about a month and a few days playthrough. Jesus fucking christ, one of the best single player experiences I have ever had. Even more so than OoT. The thing I like most about Half Life 2 is that as you progress through the game the environments never really feel the same. Every level has it's own unique feel to it, and each one is simply amazing.This. ALMOST done with HL2 ep 2.
Shitty vehicle scenes though.
did you take the baby or did you enslave the people anyways?I ate it.
oh shit i forgot about FM2010. there's another purchase i need, i should probably wait for my new laptop tho.
incidentally the 360 version of FIFA 10 is great and i can't see the ps3 version being that much better tbh
fair enough. be sure to put your game face in as they look hilarious every time!
ugh I regret buying FIFA 10. it's fun in some ways but have you guys not realised yet that you CANNOT EVER score headers, or score from corners? free kicks are nearly impossible as well! that's a fucking massive flaw in a football game!I have never scored a free kick in ANY FIFA game ever. I've scored a few headers though but none of them have ever been been real bullet header or anything, more deflections of the heads of my players, you know? Also is it me or are the graphics for FIFA 10 not as good as the FIFA 09 graphics?
i banged in like 7 goals against man u as a striker (playing for spurs), then i'd play some fairly shit team like portsmouth, have a million chances on goal, but they would have a superhuman goalkeeper who you just COULD NOT score against EVER. nobody else experienced this?it's a funny old game :welp:
definitely play the smallest person in your team in goal and set their player instructions to ALL-OUT ATTACK. also set the team instructions to the zaniest things possible
You gotta do fucken press conferences in fifa now? I guess that's a good reflection of how much emphasis is put on the lame business side of football. what billionaire is funding what club, who's buying what palyers fuck that shit
I wonder it will look like shrek too
I've thought about getting FM. I've never played a football management game (with my current understanding of football, which is higher than ever before) and just wanna know what it's like. Is there much else to it than picking a team, buying some players and grinding out results because while I see the appeal of managing a soccer squadron I can't see my attention lasting a whole season, let alone a whole career.i didn't think this either. i was sorely wrong.
On that sorta note, which SMT game do you think I should go for next? SMT 3/Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga 1 (And 2 after it) or Persona 3? All three of them are of interest to me, but don't know which one to go for next?definitely smt3. i personally preferred digital devil saga 1, but nobody seems to agree with me on it. i found it to be a particularly interesting game, although the sequel was a bit of a letdown. hoped they'd do more interesting things with it in the second one, but it was uniformly worse than the first one, and the only way you'll enjoy it at all is if you can appreciate the fact that they attempted to tell the most ridiculous story they could possibly muster. the first one is all about the mystery behind the story, and they do make it legitimately compelling, but then you get to the second one and find that it was a whole lot less interesting than you expected it to be. i finished the first one about as quickly as i've finished a videogame since the ps1 days, but i still, years later, haven't finished the second one. still, it's definitely not a bad game and worth trying out if you're honestly enthused enough about the smt series to play through them all. despite the ridiculous nature of the story itself, it's a fairly interesting game with a more deliberate storytelling attempt than most of the other SMT games. the first one had a spectacular soundtrack, too. i can't say that about recent games, but the dds 1 soundtrack is remarkable. somehow, the second one really isn't, though.
Dead Space is really good. I felt it started off really slowly myself and it took me ages to get into it. The game play is pretty fun and the atmosphere is pretty great. It's definitely a good one to play with the lights off. I like it a lot.i'll take your word for it and give it another chance. i didn't hate the game, i just felt my interest kinda fading away, in part due to other stuff i was doing at the time.
I mean, just the story and the mind-numbing elements (all that marker stuff) i find super disturbing and i adore shit like that
I mean, I didn't beat it yet, barely played actually, but friends have told me alot about it. We also had huge doubts about Dead Space: Extraction, but it turns out it was a decent rail-shooter with a great story and some really disturbing stuff and really fucked up moments. It was awesome to rent, especially for free.
But yeah, I really love all this Dead Space stuff, and I can't wait for the next game/thing in the series.
I never found RE or any DooM game disturbing/scary, except maybe DooM sprites scaring me when I was 4-5 years old
The Silent Hills I've played have been decently spooky though
I thought Doom 3 was scary early on when you play it in the dark. it had a lot of "spook" type scares. but yeah, got a bit predictable.
I've heard persona 4 is a step in the right direction, but i was burnt too badly from the third one to give it a try.
DW6 was pretty awful I thought, I mean I did like the extra customization but that was ALL it had going for it, the rest of it turned into some horrible anime I can't even describe. I'll probably end up selling it this winter (when I have time to go to the post office to ebay things), I haven't touched it since the day I bought it. DW5 on the other hand is much better.
majority is not ALL. tsk tsk. :DI didn't do all of them either... but that's because I did some quests that make it impossible to do other quests. Plus some quests were exclusively evil deeds. I was strictly a good character. Also one of the quests just fails to work/is to buggy.
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playing Borderlands. Im a lvl 26 Hunter. the game's repetitive but its addictive at the same time. I hate online though unless there's proper ping and there are people close to your level. Last time i randomly went to a match and everyone was level 3 and 4. They kicked me out for being higher :(
I didn't do all of them either... but that's because I did some quests that make it impossible to do other quests. Plus some quests were exclusively evil deeds. I was strictly a good character. Also one of the quests just fails to work/is to buggy.
like.... I did all of them and see no bug that made it impossible to do.Good for you. I'm talking about a unmarked quest BTW, where you are supposedly helping some Brotherhood of Steel guys out near some metro tracks. The guy I need to talk to in order to do the quest never shows up for me.
Good for you. I'm talking about a unmarked quest BTW, where you are supposedly helping some Brotherhood of Steel guys out near some metro tracks. The guy I need to talk to in order to do the quest never shows up for me.
The post you quoted was about borderland... not Fallout.
majority is not ALL. tsk tsk. :Dis a response to:
Just finished fallout 3 after 60 hours, did the majority all of the marked and unmarked side missions.Which is about Fallout 3.
yes but: is a response to:Which is about Fallout 3.
O ok... well as the Brother Hood Steal I'm in the same boat as you are in... I did almost all side missions... the best one was geting quntum nukecola and give it to that bitch. I normally take the evil route since it is so rewarding. Too bad I stop playing when maxed out... I was pissed when I hit the cap and I never cameback to for the longest time... and still to this day.
The audio-visual experience you get in machinarium is astounding. The level of composition in both the sountrack and the artwork is unmatched by 99.9% of the I have played. Still blown away by this game.Totally agreed. I even forked out the extra $5 or whatever for the Mp3 download of the soundtrack. Absolutely love it.
To suggest that ALL the critics are paid off is really hard to imagine...
hell, its hard to imagine any of them being paid off. I find the idea entirely and overly paranoid. I imagine maybe someone would believe this if they found that their personal favorite game to be a lower score then another game that they view with contempt... so they refuse to believe that their game is considered lesser and start thinking the critics are paid off. Sounds like denial.
I didn't bother with MW1 (some certain flaws reeeeally put me off) but I have decided to jump on for MW2.Many of the missions are still very linear (go from point A to point B), but you have more freedom to explore your environment (which is more open, which is what I meant) than in MW1.
The AI is stupid and non-dynamic, and the levels are obscenely linear ("a bit more open ended", ramirez? I can't even imagine what MW1 was like). But it's shitloads of fun with brilliant gunplay and a good sense of progression through a mixture of the narrative and the good level design (which almost forgives it being linear).
And: the airport level. That is something I did NOT fucking expect, considering you were just thrown into it. Now I see why there's a warning about a "disturbing level" at the beginning of the game. It's a brilliant level... in every way imaginable. My mouth was hanging wide open after taking out that first bunch of civilians...
I want to get MW2 but really dont want to spend the full £40.00 for it, so will have to wait till it goes down a little... even £35 would be good.Sainsbury's were doing it for £26 I believe
beat ghostbusters 360. vaguely enjoyable from a gaming perspective(lol), profoundly dissatisfying from any other sort of comedic or creative perspective. aykroyd and ramis have really LOST IT unfortunately. i didn't expect genius comedy, but i would probably say that the dialogue was the low point of the game, although that may be because i had at least moderate expectations for it.
i think what killed it for me was the fact that bill murray was clearly not given any sort of control over the dialogue. bill murray himself is actually not a particularly good actor, and doesn't really react well when it's just him reading other people's words without him injecting his own style into it. not to say he is untalented, but he's definitely more of a BRILLIANT PERFORMER than a GREAT ACTOR. peter cook and a few others have been like this throughout the years, but nobody has really been allowed to do their thing as much as murray has. either way, i think the game would have benefited GREATLY from letting murray record the dialogue FIRST and do whatever the shit he wanted with it before the cinematics and whatnot were made. for my money, it was always murray's humor that made ghostbusters what it was. the rest of the ghostbusters story was neat, and at times pretty clever, but the driving force i think was always the contrast between these serious scientists and the absurd charlatan they let hang around for unexplained reasons. there was no hint of this dynamic, and beyond the fact that it was the same cast and looked a lot like them, it didn't really feel like the ghostbusters.
also i still fucking hate the mute main character element, and this game does it about as worse as any i've played. in this game it felt like enormous fanservice to all the neckbearded idiots who wore their plastic proton packs into an age where most child psychologists would have been more than slightly concerned. i actually stopped playing for a month because i got so fucking sick of ernie hudson shouting GOOD JOB ROOK every time i went three steps without inadvertently killing myself. this gets exceptionally bad in the sections where they let you handle the obstacles, because THEY ALL SAY THAT SHIT IN UNISON. it made an already uncomfortably artificial team dynamic a lot more unconvincing and nauseating. it kinda worked OK when you were just following one of them around, but in a cluster it just felt wrong. definitely would have been a lot happier with the game had they just let you rotate between the existing characters rather than force this new, totally undeveloped character into the mix. the mute main character was useless and obligatory, and killed what little the game had going for it.
that said, it's not a TERRIBLE GAME. it manages to be fairly fun to play at parts, despite being a really chaotic and nonsensical most of the time. i'm actually not quite sure why i kinda enjoyed the gameplay, to be honest, but it more or less worked for me. the different weapon functions and all was surprisingly diverse, and fairly enjoyable to screw around with. the locations were for the most part fresh and stimulating, at times quite spectacular, which was a surprise. i didn't find myself getting bored of the game itself too terribly often, because the game was paced such that something mostly new would happen whenever what you were doing would get old.
oh, and i can't trash the dialogue entirely. max von sydow was oustanding, and everything he said as vigo was pretty funny and inventive. it was the type of wacky shit i would have hoped for from the rest of the game, really, not from the random side shit you can see within the first half hour of the game.
all in all, not so good game, but not terrible. it's probably great if you are a hopeless ghostbusters fanboy, but not so much if you've grown up and have some semblance of dignity. it got a free pass from me because i didn't physically pay for it, but it's not the sort of game you should buy yourself. con one of your idiot friends into buying it and borrow it from them if you're discerning and don't particularly like throwing money away on a game you can finish in a few hours.
i doubt i'll be playing anything else for a while. i reluctantly played through this because my brother wanted his copy back. i've got dead space gathering cobwebs on top of my 360, but i played a little bit of it and grew tired of it quickly. is it worth playing if I already found myself getting bored of it through the first two hours?
The ending will make you go :O and then go into a rage.
I am enjoying MWF2 very much. The campaign is wild and has far more variety and the multiplayer is much more fun for me. I do REALLY hate how they have BOTH the FAMAS and the M16 though, great now we have two extremely overpowering weapons that people will take advantage of.haha, i discovered the FAMAS early on. it's WAY over powered.
I know that most of the people that hang out here don't really like JRPG's but what are your thoughts on the Baten Kaitos series I'm thinking about ordering the games.
I just ordered Tales of Symphonia without taking any advice and am very disappointed at how bad it is.
Did some quick math, there is 1,649,007,360,000 different combinations for custom classes in MW2. This is counting ACOG, Red Dot, and Holographic sights as all the same thing to.I would like to know what stuff is good and what stuff is worthless in MW2 please tell...?
My friend says he'll help me unlock shit, and I already know what stuff is good and what stuff is worthless. I'm also a better player than I was before so I should get to the next level of prestige faster.
Hoping I'm not making a mistake and end up regretting my decision.
I would like to know what stuff is good and what stuff is worthless in MW2 please tell...?
I have more tips rolling around in my mind but here a good chunk of what I've learned:It'd not bad opinions, but they're mostly either glaringly obvious, or common sense. A few good tips in there, though.
-When in doubt go Sleight of hand, Stopping Power, and Steady Aim.
-The thermal is one of the best attachments for snipers, LMG's, and the more accurate assault rifles,
-heart beat sensor is useful mainly to the sniper, making it harder to be ambushed.
-Tactical insertion is always the equipment to go with if you are going to snipe, The Claymore, while giving you the chance to get an extra kill, is unreliable and only protects against a single attack from a single avenue of attack(unless you are able to restock)
-Most, if not all of the SMG's are not worth it as machine pistols can be your secondary and function in effectively the same manner.
-The ACOG scope is never worth it unless you are unlocking the Thermal, as it obstructs your view more then the red dot or holographic.
-I find that the M16 is definitely better then the FAMAS, so switch to it as soon as you unlock it if you like burst fire weapons.
-among the first 2 LMG's, the RGB it the better more accurate and stable weapon.
-Handguns are some of the best weapons to go akimbo with, as they take targets down at roughly the same speed as SMGs and MPs, reload faster and give greater mobility. only draw back is ammo.
-I Think but am less certain: revolvers are better then desert eagles as they deal nearly the exact same amount of damage and have much less kickback, the only draw back is having 6 shots instead of 7.
-I've found almost all the shotguns I've used to be effective, the Striker/street sweeper is one of the best as it has the least/most controllable downtime and has plenty of ammo. I've known many people to consider akimbo 1887's to be overpowered, I never got around to using them.
-the grenade launcher attachment is pretty powerful. I don't know if it's overpowered. but many would claim it to be. issue is that I found it to really only to be super powerful is if you have the Danger close perk.
-The Stinger is useful to have on at least one of your classes as a means to get rid air vehicles pestering you and your team. As its the most effective way to deal with them.
-The TAR-21 is kind of garbage... the lack of any accuracy really turns me off to it.
-The Scar is my favorite Assault rifle, high damage, respectable accuracy. the only real draw back is lack of ammo, however I've found the weapon to be pretty common, so retrieving extra ammo in the field isn't necessarily unlikely.
-The Throwing knife is one of the most effective weapons to use in combination with the riot shield as there is very little time spent where you are vulnerable to the enemy when using it.
-Sniping with any Perk 3 other then Steady Aim Pro is unadvised.
-Barret .50cal is my recommended sniper
feel free to call bullshit on any of these. as I will admit they are based on MY strengths.
Dragon Age:Origins. It feels a little rushed in places, and the graphics could be better, but overall it is another solid Bioware rpg. Best of all, it doesn't have a forced morality slider. You can act like a saint or demon and not have to worry about hearing a musical flourish and seeing blue or red haze swirling around you every time. Your party members actually act, sort of, as your moral compass. Take the Templar, the former priestess, and the kindly old woman with you on a mission to defile the most holy of artifacts, and you can expect interesting things.
Playing Valkyria Chronicles from beginning again, last time I stopped at last mission. :(
I am glad someone else is also playing this very good game.I am also playing this game. Doing my second playthrough as a mage. Mage is easy mode in this game, so much less challenging than a warrior.
did anyone else buy the thq pack off of steam? Over £200 down to £25... Red Faction alone (which is in the fucking pack...) costs £35.Company of Heroes series, Frontlines: Fuel of war, Full Spectrum Warrior series, Juiced 2, Red Faction Series, The first STALKER, Saints Row 2, Titan Quest and expansion, Warhammer series.
As a result I've been playing the latest Red Faction, allllll the Dawn of Wars, Company of Heroes and I don't actually know what else came with the pack but hey
left for dead is aweseme... kinda scary too....
Why do you like using a lot of ellipsis?
Seriously.
I don't care much for RTS either, but Dawn of War was an exception and thus Company of Heroes naturally is too. and yeah i couldnt give a shit for juiced and front lines. full spectrum warrior was actually really good and was very well recievedHmmm. Yeah it looks like it is probably was well made. But I can't see how it differentiates itself from a lot of other shooters. I like Military FPS's (considering how many hours I've been playing MW2) but I've played so many and that one looks like just another one of the herd.
Hmmm. Yeah it looks like it is probably was well made. But I can't see how it differentiates itself from a lot of other shooters.acutally, if i recall, it isn't a shooter. You never actually aim at anything and shoot. Same with movement, you don't just use WASD to move about, you use orders to send the whooole squad (including you) to a position. it was far more tactical than anything else
IM replaying the kingdom hearts series just beat part 1 yesterday and am now waiting for my DS to be fixed so that i can play days.
IN the meantime iv'e been working on my review site and play some of Zelda A Link To The Past.
Oh a gaming review site? That's pretty unique dude. I'm sure it'll be a hit!
Do I detect sarcasm here?.....You are the best possible person I could think of to review games. I will read each and every one of your reviews.
well yeah it ain't that unique but I seem to enjoy it so I keep working on it.
I seem to enjoy it so I keep working on it.
oh yeah I finally am playing dead space, it's p good, nothing fantastic.
Planning to purchase MWII on this Christmas.
Any suggestion regarding MWII will be appreciated.
Thanks.
I don't game much anymore but I have lots of free time now and sometimes I get a lil' bored so I am playing Exit Fate at the moment and soon I am going to install the old Medal of Honor computer games to kill time.
reinstalled and started playing both deus ex and morrowind. the latter especially is super nostalgic for me. i almost cried when i heard the title theme :iamgay:
Which Medal of Honors?Allied Assault, Spearhead, and Breakthrough
Allied Assault, Spearhead, and BreakthroughI only played Allied Assault. Pretty fun game. I played it because I knew the CoD guys made it. Never got around to trying the expansions. Are they worth playing or are they nothing special?
I only played Allied Assault. Pretty fun game. I played it because I knew the CoD guys made it. Never got around to trying the expansions. Are they worth playing or are they nothing special?tbh I only started playing spearhead I never got far into and I never did Blackhead yet so I don't really know. I'm sure they are similar to Allied Assault though so they can't be that bad.
i am waiting to playmy call of duty mw2 ,i just bought it yesterday ,a little late,because it is too expensive for me ,and when it has discount ,i bought one ,save me a lot that i could bought a wii game .perhaps it is also good for you (http://www.dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?type=id&q=d96724&ru=2780326) .i know many gamers have almost finished this game ,so i want to know many skilled gamers.pm me please.
Decided not to quit WoW just yet thanks to the new patch. They should've implimented the cross-realm LFG years ago.I'm more interested in getting a new WoW mounts. Go away.
it's just really really shallow compared to the first one and not as smart.
who is your virtual pro playing for velfarre??
no. it's subbuteo trevor francis
it makes me think of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO9bNmkJVbw) (also your ct reminds me of a few minutes later (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXczGd6dO4A)What the FUCK? I can't see the second video! It says Channel 4 has decided to block it "in my country"?????
Still paying MW2, got and beat FEAR 2 for Christmas, wasn't expecting too much. Also got Darkest of Days, got most of the way through it, I think. Good game for a small company.Tell your friends to quit bitching. I find most people that play find something they think is OP when they aren't really at all.
MW2: Started playing as a knife douche when I'm bored. My friends hate me for it
the best part about MW2 is the riot shields. play with only riot shields.Agreed! Riot shields only with no nades makes quite a challenging and fun afternoon!
Question for anyone with the new FIFA, I do not really, uh, PLAY sports games at all or know much about soccer but I have heard people with similar interests saying it is a very good game! Do you think I would enjoy it if I am generally not into sport games??? at the very least, that player creator looks kinda cool, I could tinker with that for a while.
What the FUCK? I can't see the second video! It says Channel 4 has decided to block it "in my country"?????
I AM IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS YOU, CHANNEL 4
Forza Motorsport 3 on 360, and next on my play list are Uncharted 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Torchlight (already played a bit of DAO and Torchlight, but need to play more!)I still have SO much to do on Forza 2, but I really want to play Forza 3.
Haha, I tried this game, it was so amazingly awful and broken. If you made your character too tall he couldnt fit through some tunnels and doorways.
Dragon Age: Origins on the PC, ModNation Racers Beta on the PS3. Both are quite fun.
ah i like play aion .......
That is a secret of the Stonecutters..... I cannot tell.
how did you get in that beta
Digimon World 2 for the PSX is the best dungeon crawler jRPG in existence. The gameplay is sort of slow but really really rewarding, the graphics are quite good for a game of its era and the story is actually pretty good, it actually keeps me occupied and motivates me to go on endless grinding to get my Agumon to level-up or something.
A++ would play again totally recommended
The frist one was good too... Just sucked when your pride an joy dies.
Been playing FFXII in the time that I've not been able to get on the PS3 to play Batman. Got slightly miffed at the game last night because the gambit system decided to feck my characters over while I was in the dreadnought Leviathan: Basche wouldn't open the door to escape when it was absolutely necessary, and instead decided to aim at bad guys, fun >.>Steal If Enemy = 100% HP is what I used there. I got a.. 250 chain? Or something? Before leaving. I wanted to see if you get anything for insane chain levels.
EDIT: On a lighter note, I think I'm gonna be rich when I go to the stores after the Lhusu mines: Found an area with JUST skeletons so been abusing Steal + The Chain level system. Too bad I don't think there's gonna be a gambit for Enemy: Not Stolen From, would be alot more useful 'cause I wouldn't need to pay much attention then.
That is a secret of the Stonecutters..... I cannot tell.Gamespot gave away 2000 keys, I won one.
I AM IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS YOU, CHANNEL 4that's kind of the idea
man i had never really heard of subbuteo before now i want to play it thanks you fucker >prepare to be in model football hell. black books ruled btw
prepare to be in model football hell. black books ruled btw
what the hell is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcPc6OQ384
what the hell is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcPc6OQ384
okami.
so far some of the brush stuff is sort of annoying it doesn't seem to register some moves. maybe i'm just still getting accustomed to drawing a straight horizontal line. some of my friends said this game was cool but aside from the graphics i'm not sure how much i like it. the brush idea is neat but im not sure how well works.
anyone else played it?
Found myself back on Fallout 3 again. Would never have done it without GamingW. I accidentally stumbled across Tranquility Lane and holy hell that was the weirdest thing.Aw, I did that the first time. You just skipped a sizeable chunk of the story :V.
Speed Glitch in Modern Warfare 2 is HILARIOUS. Ahaha, I'm having the best time.
I'f your following the main story quest line, it usually lets you know where you need to be.It's not so much that he isn't where he needs to be, it's that he's missed a lot of main story content by exploring and hitting the later objectives by a fluke.
planescape: torment, i started to play before and didn't like it. i have no idea why because it's really really good now that i'm playing it againhowd you get it to work it never worked for me
howd you get it to work it never worked for me
planescape sucks douche in the gooch, but yeah it works on my computer very well
the gameplay is boring and it's hard to tell what's going on graphically but the dialogue is fuckin great and i love that you have to mentally gauge people's personality for the best response rather than just ASK EVERY QUESTION RPG TIMEI played Planescape again a couple weeks ago and I'm sort of amazed at how I was able to sit through it when I was 12. I mean, this is Words: The Game. It actually sort of amazes me even more that I liked it so much back then, because I thought it was pretty fucking awful replaying it recently. The setting was cool, or I guess the idea of it, the story (until the very end when you find out that your mortality is actually a living thing, which is dumb) is interesting, and it's neat how they actively avoided the most obvious fantasy tropes like dwarfs and elves or whatever, but they really fucked up with everything else.
the gameplay is boring and it's hard to tell what's going on graphically but the dialogue is fuckin great and i love that you have to mentally gauge people's personality for the best response rather than just ASK EVERY QUESTION RPG TIMEdo you have a no cd crack I can have? did you dl it from somewhere?
do you have a no cd crack I can have? did you dl it from somewhere?
Started up Digital Devil Saga the other day. Got it for christmas, and I've got a big backlog of SMT games to finish...
Never before have I had to sit and tax my brain to figure out how to build a party. :(
Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings And The Lost ocean....where to start definitely one of the best games ive ever played if you have a gamecube or a wii this is a definite buy this one of those few games i actually stayed up until 5 a.m in the morning just playing, the battles never seem to get repetitive due to the random card order the music is beautiful the graphics are beautiful voice acting isnt that good but hey if you really find them bad just turn them off-I'm 20 hours into the game and have never been bored once, this game is so very good.
Also if your getting this be sure to get the prequel origins its upto you what order you play them but i prefer the order they were made the prequel (baten kaitos origins) improved everything eternal wings had wrong but eternal wings from what i hear has a better story and battle system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNtWj4bStOY&feature=related -Some of the great music this game has to offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B64f48ewdo&feature=related -A weird track but in no means bad.
I played Planescape again a couple weeks ago and I'm sort of amazed at how I was able to sit through it when I was 12. I mean, this is Words: The Game. It actually sort of amazes me even more that I liked it so much back then, because I thought it was pretty fucking awful replaying it recently. The setting was cool, or I guess the idea of it, the story (until the very end when you find out that your mortality is actually a living thing, which is dumb) is interesting, and it's neat how they actively avoided the most obvious fantasy tropes like dwarfs and elves or whatever, but they really fucked up with everything else.
The game's main problem is that it repeats everything to you 100 times. If you want to Play The Game Right, you have to talk to every single person in the game and ask them every single thing you can possibly ask them. I was literally told the specific way that the Lady of Pain imprisons people by 50 different people and it was worded only slightly differently each time. This applies to everything in the game. You have to talk to everyone, but very few of the people you talk to have anything unique to say. It's sort of like if instead of having one article for one subject on Wikipedia, there were 50 articles for each subject that all said roughly the same thing. The other problem is that most of the shit people tell you is lore, which is complete garbage. Lore is any information about the game world that doesn't actually relate to the game and there is a ridiculous amount of it. It's terrible man. Even items have pages of lore on them. A lot of it is information that could have potentially led to something interesting in the game, like the conflict between the githyanki and githzerai. You read probably 10 straight pages worth of text about it and it ultimately amounts to a brief confrontation with a githyanki calling Dak'kon a dog or something. Even the information that is relevant doesn't really mean anything. You can learn about the Godmen and what they are trying to do and what they stand for and their ideals, but you never find out what it means to be a Godman, even after you become one. In fact, nothing even changes when you become one. This is what all of the information in the game is like; you can read about it but you can never learn what it means or how it relates to anything.
So I guess when a game's positives are that it's not about dwarfs and elves, it's not such a good game. If you want to make a game that is literally an encyclopedia, you have to make the shit you're reading actually meaningful to what is occurring in front of you. To me, Planescape: Torment is a primer on how not to make a game.
I have been playing Final Fantasy Tactics War of the lions non stop.ebay
But I'm freaking stuck in it again and I can't grind because if I leave the town I start a battle.
I dont have the energy to try again right now because I was so close to winning but one of my allies disappeared.
I've also been trying to get my hands on lost odyssey but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Anyone know any sites that sell the pal version and ships to Australia.
Red Alert 3
Dead Space
both on PC
dudde red alert 3 is totally rad man.
Quite a big list ive got
ps2:
tales of the abyss
persona 3
persona 4
radiata stories
kingdom hearts 1
kingdom hearts recom
kingdom hearts 2
final fantasy 10
brath of fire dragin quarter
gamecube:
baten kaitos eternal wings (disc fucked up on me)
baten kaitos origins
skies of arcadia legends
fire emblem path of radience
super smash bros melee
wii:
final fantasy crystal chronicles crystal bearers
muramasa the demon blade
psp:
final fantasy tactics
gba:
golden sun 2
final fantasy tactics advance
and some games i cant remember...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II0rfojZizM
Yeah same with me. still just playing MW2... mainly because I'm going through prestige. Prestiged 3 times so far, on level 30 something on my current prestige.
I actually don't enjoy presteging but I WANT those extra class slots damn it.
I have like 7-8 days of play time thus far.
how do you people do this
by not doing anything elseI've had the game since the day after the PC release. based on that I have had the game for 62 days. and I have about 7days and 8 hours of play time which equals a total of 176 hours. That's roughly 3 hours a day and that is being generous. A lot of those hours were during the first 2 weeks. I've slowed down.
i played far cry 2 at my friend's house and was really impressed, it's super immersive and kinda reminds me of a not as good version of stalker. the map editor is really cool too and the multiplayer looks like call of duty 4 that doesn't suck. should i buy this gameI never really tried the multiplayer but I beat the single player. Its a looooong game, mainly due to all the walking unfortunately.
I rented Bayonetta, thank god that's all I did.
this game is so bad, I would never pay any more than 10 dollars to play it.
The cutscenes are terrible, the dialogue is terrible, most of the game feels like softcore porno.
The story really isn't all that interesting, the fights are very simple and display little to no challenge, there is hardly any variation in enemies.
The only cool thing is the torture attacks, which really get stale after awhile.
The store is ridiculous, how am I supposed to be able to afford to buy all the techniques and accessories if I hardly fight any enemies that drop halos?
oh yeah jester, she uses her outfit to kill big bosses.
The Ultras are really easy on a keyboard. Because you can bind a key to press all three of the punch or kick buttons at once in the options menu.
pfffft, cheatingEveryone on PC does it, so it sort of evens the scales. Except people who use sticks, but they have an advantage because they can actually do stick movements properly.
i think my sf4 experience would be much better if i caved in and bought a fighting stick
The Ultras are really easy on a keyboard. Because you can bind a key to press all three of the punch or kick buttons at once in the options menu.
wait...dude this bound button you speak of is incorporated in the ps3 and x360 versions as well. the only difference is you dont need to set it in options as it comes default like that.Oh? Well, that's news to me.
wait...dude this bound button you speak of is incorporated in the ps3 and x360 versions as well. the only difference is you dont need to set it in options as it comes default like that.
vellfire if you bought a fighting stick you'd not only enjoy sf4 but many other fighters that can be emulated.
Are the fighting sticks typically wired or wireless? If they're wireless, is there some sort of dongle you can get to use them with PCs (I seem to remember seeing these while reading about the regular 360 controllers)? I hadn't even considered using it with the PC even though now that I think about it I don't see why not. It would rock to use one for MAME and stuff too.They are wired, because it gives beter responce time or something allegedly. Bear in mind, from what I can tell, you really get what you pay for with fighting sticks. If you buy some cheapo one for 50 dollars, it'll fell all shitty to use and break really easily. But an expensive one will last you for years.
I bought a Saturn joystick a long time ago with the intention of buying a USB adapter for it but nobody actually SELLS them anymore, even though they exist. The idea of having a fighting stick for my PC definitely still appeals to me though.
at the moment im trying out first person tetris>>
http://firstpersontetris.com/?tetris
depends on what kind you get.
This one off of amazon >>>> is 49.99
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox360-Fighting-Stick-EX-Xbox-360/dp/B000V02P6Q
and you can also configure it to use with windows
http://www.digitalsapien.com/how-to-configure-a-hori-xbox-360-fighting-stick-ex2-for-use-in-windows
and heres a youtube review>>>
im actually saving up some money to get me one of these.
Oh and I've also been playing a lot of Minecraft, one fucking sweet game.
I found plenty of challenge in the fights myself. Also yeah the cutscenes are really dependent on the player. The cutscenes and dialogue are terrible but in a way that they were MEANT to be. I laughed during just about every cutscene, they were so horribly over the top that they struck me as very funny, and this was the idea. But, either that appeals to your or it doesn't. I don't think this makes it AWFUL though.
Most of the techniques and accessories you are supposed to be buying more towards the end. You get a lot more halos at the end of the game than you do early on. Also, you get a lot more (at least I think so) playing the easier modes than the harder ones, so if you were that desperate then you could just play some levels on easy. The game doesn't end when you beat it, you're supposed to go back and play it again on a harder mode and also find hidden things you missed the first time. This is why most of the things in the store are so expensive, you aren't SUPPOSED to get them for a while.
I think it's really more of a case of this game not being for you than it being a bad game.
Yeah, I've rented Bayonetta over the last week-end and had a lot of fun with it. Everything is so over the top but in a very conscious way. I (ironically) didn't really care about gameplay, has I was more interested on the whole Bayonetta and sexuality talk that was going around. It is kinda weird but I will have to agree, to some degree, with Leigh Alexander (http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/213466/bayonetta-empowering-or-exploitative/) on this one.
anyone else preorder bioshock 2? i got it for £20 off steam (me and some friends put some money into the four-pack version on steam) and we also get a free copy of the original. £20 for bioshock and bioshock 2 you cant say no unless you're dumb or a hobo
Yeah it is glitchy as hell and I hover around 20 fps a lot. Playable, but poor.
Also FUCK THE ESCORT MISSIONS, Seriously. Especially when they ask for you to do 1000 damage to other cars. I did this for the longest fucking time and it never went away, it doesn't tell you your progress and I have no idea how much '1000 points' of damage is.
LOL yeah this is definitely not a game to write home about. It has potential but boy did it ever miss the mark :crazy:
LOL yeah this is definitely not a game to write home about. It has potential but boy did it ever miss the mark :crazy:I mentioned earlier that the damage thing became a counter after I tried running the game later. So I was able to beat the escort missions after taking a break. So it was just some random bug.
where do people learn to write like this
where do people learn to write like thiswhat do you mean? write like what?
You get a lot more halos at the end of the game than you do early on. Also, you get a lot more (at least I think so) playing the easier modes than the harder ones, so if you were that desperate then you could just play some levels on easy.
it's a style of writing that fails to break the mould, despite any efforts to the contrary. definitely not an uncommon phenomenon on the internet, of course, but glaring when it appears none the less. i suppose that is what you get when you've got a generation of youngsters nourished on nothing but games journalism and energy drinks, but c'est la vie *shrugs*
You actually get a ton more in the harder difficulties, but halos are almost entirely based off your combo score (combo/10 = halos received). each enemy drops a certain amount but it's a paltry amount compared to the halos. there's areas in the game where you can get 2+ million from a single fight, so if you combo well you can buy everything by like chapter 5 or 6.
At the same time my little brother says Red Faction guerrilla is impossible to beat on PC on any OS because you apparently can't save for some reason. IDK if I believe this though. I'm sure that not EVERYONE can't save otherwise everyone would have returned the PC version. I'm sure it works on SOME system hopefully mine is one of them.
Your brother must have one fucked up computer, bro. Guerilla saves perfectly well on mine.
As I said, I would probably start playing Clear Sky, and I have but I am also considering playing Mass Effect instead. Before the sequel is released, at least.
At the same time my little brother says Red Faction guerrilla is impossible to beat on PC on any OS because you apparently can't save for some reason. IDK if I believe this though. I'm sure that not EVERYONE can't save otherwise everyone would have returned the PC version. I'm sure it works on SOME system hopefully mine is one of them.Your brother didn't read the part that said "You must be signed into Games For Windows LIVE to save your game." It says so as soon as you start a new game.
eh, I tried Mass Effect and the gameplay felt incredibly bland to me. I guess I just had a "OH COOL ITS A SHOOTER RPG" mentality going into it and found it to be lackluster on the actual action of shooting. My friend Caleb said that is just because I was in the early levels where your cross hairs are huge making it so that you just point in the general direction of an enemy holding the left mouse button and wait for them to die rather than actually aim. add this with the slow nature of it and I couldn't keep my attention on the game.
That's just me though, I'll eventually give it another shot probably but there are so many other games I have not tried or that I know are good to bother with it now.
mass effect 2 is downloading, shall be playing soon enough. my friend says it's pretty yummyI was gonna download this, then I saw that it was like 14 gig or something around that. My shitty Australian internet has a cap of 12 gig.
I'm playing Mass Effect specifically so that when I buy Mass Effect 2 I have a character to import.
I am currently playing Farmville and some facebook applications ..I also like to play Conquer online at the momentwhy didn't i post this post
Bioshock 2. but I'm heavily biased as you know.
I like Bioshock but I can never play it when my girlfriend is around. People plunging massive needles into their arms to heal just doesn't sit well with her :welp:
Also just restarted playing Dwarf Fortress after minecraft gave me a mad urge. Latest build is still from 2008 but the new one should be out soon...really looking forward to it :DI could never get into Dwarf Fortress. It's incredibly complex.
or maybe you do. i don't really know
I do.
I can provide proof if needed.
ed I just realized that's you in your avatar. The ground looks wet but I'm guessing that's just me. regardless, it looks hilarious.
What am I playing? Over the last 3 days I acquired a shitload of games for the playstation>
Legend of Legaia
Thousand Arms
Legend of Dragoon
Eternal Eyes
Breath of Fire 4
Brave Fencer Musashi
Jade Cocoon
Threads of Fate
Frontmission 3
Saga Frontier 2
Tales of Destiny 2
Lunar 2
Star Ocean Second Story
FFVI
Wild Arms 2
Beyond the Beyond
Kartia
Torneko the last hope
Im playing FF8 at the moment though. Once I get past disc one im going to start another game on top of that.
ed I just realized that's you in your avatar. The ground looks wet but I'm guessing that's just me. regardless, it looks hilarious.
I heard it was longer, perhaps Pink just blazed through the storyline without thought for anything else.I am pretty certain it's longer (my playtime is about 20 hours), but it's kinda of hard to judge. Rather than a handful of long missions with side missions, it feels like a large number of short missions with side missions blended in with them.
You guys suck, play Jade Empire. It's awesome and also pretty short, easy enough to blaze through just in time for Mass Effect 2.
I couldn't stand Jade Empire. Everyone waved their arms wildly and rocked back and forth while talking, it was really dumb.
Ugh I really can't bring myself to play Clear Sky at the moment. I think I'm all stalkered out for now.Oddworld oddworld oddworld oddworld
I think Half Life wins. . . At least until Mass Effect 2 unlocks on Steam.
unreal tournament, the first one, at 200% normal speed. i think the game speed changes just that, how fast the game goes, and does very little in terms of my aim or strategyThe thing about UT99 is that the default gamespeed is already way too fast as is. I guess that's just my gripe, because i'm not one of those people with caffeine surging through their veins.
so in other words the game is hard on hard mode? uh oh....
if you're finding it sodifficultfrustrating that you're no longer having fun, just turn down the difficulty. GENERALLY the whole point of normal mode is that the game has been balanced for normal to be the best gaming experience, so really it's no cop out to just drop to normal
mass effect on 360 and it fucking sucks because the text is way too fucking small for an sd tvAren't pretty much all console games like this now?
Aren't pretty much all console games like this now?
you sat for 23 hours and played a videogame from beginning to end?
23 hours is a long time. 18 is not that far off from 23, but 5 hours of sleep is pretty beneficial. I think the most i ever played wow was maybe 18 hours. it's really not good for you.
i didnt even notice that
wow. 23 hours in one sitting? i played aquaria for like.. 16, 18? and my hands were shaking so bad after that i had to go to bed as i couldnt beat a boss.
23 hours?!
this is the beginning
here's where AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL gets started
blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaaah blaah blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
oh barkley soundtrack
it does look like a kiddy game but when asked about it they just say it was supposed to appeal to the biggest jrpg fans ever, to go back to what "made jrpgs so great"
i remember some guy commented the crew behind the game was like the absolute jrpg dreamteam and it ended up just giving this bad game nobody really cared about
-there are no long ranged accurate weapons to could allow me to soften an area up by sniping/headshots from afar. All weapons are close range.
he's out on his own now, staying up all night playing video games. makes sense if he rented it i guess or included some lunch, dinner, normal tv viewing etc
My character glitched into a wall once and onto some scenery in another place. Luckily, I've had it happen when I was near someone I could talk to, so when the game jumped into cinematic speech mode, my character cleared the obstruction.
i got blue dragon as a christmas present and just got around to playing it. i couldn't even really say that i'm really playing this game because there's no way i'm going to be spending any more time on this trash. the target demographic are 11 year olds who LOVE DBZ and that's really about it.
it's not that the game is even that terrible, because it's too innocent to be appalling. it's just the most vapid game i've played in years. the fact that it's really aimed at small children doesn't really give it a free pass, since it doesn't even do that well. you can make something FOR CHILDREN that isn't just some boring, senseless retread. you can feel how little creativity or effort went into this, and how utterly boring it must have been to work on the game.
it's just a shame. i do think sakaguchi is one of the few people in the industry who does know how to make a pretty good experience. he always prides himself on the creative side of it all being quite important. every jerkoff claims this to some degree, but he's one of the few people that i'd be inclined to believe when they say this. he would always try to do new things, and really most of the games he was credited on are pretty unique for what they are, even the ones that aren't so great. blue dragon is the complete opposite of that, with nothing at all unique, and completely and totally without any real spark of creativity involved. i don't think it's much of a coincidence that square went from a rather good game company to absolute shit when he started losing his pull in the company. that they seem content with going forward with blue dragon as some viable franchise is profoundly discouraging.
he seems to regard the next project he's working on as THE BIG ONE that will be that dynamite game he hasn't been able to make in almost fifteen years. i'm pretty skeptical this will be the case, but we'll see
i got blue dragon as a christmas present and just got around to playing it. i couldn't even really say that i'm really playing this game because there's no way i'm going to be spending any more time on this trash. the target demographic are 11 year olds who LOVE DBZ and that's really about it....>>>>
Still enjoying ME2, taking my time with mining and side quests to pad the game out as long as possible. The Anti-Material Rifle makes the "Big Game Hunter" achievement a breeze.
Infiltrator with the Slam ability added (I might swap it out for Reave if I start getting a lot of close calls). That is about as close as I can get to the Infiltrator + Lift setup I used in the first one.
day of the tentacleyes this
HOPEFULLY I'll soon be playing Doom with Drule and Chef, if I can get it to actually work on Mac OS X.Mutiplayer or Co-op? Do you mind if I join, if possible? :woop:
I kind of wish that Legion would have been available earlier. I'm curious how the Quarian Admiralty Board would have responded to having him wandering around
The first one is very boring if you want to do everything. The sidequests consist of driving around empty planets and playing frogger a lot.
anyone else stoked for Battlefield: Bad Company 2?
I just finished up The Ballad of Gay Tony and loved it. Especially Yusuf. Now I'm trying to get some cash together for Mass Effect 2. I have to play it.
i enjoyed this because i was highmaybe thats my problem..
alsoThat good? Were you a Battlefield/Bad Company fan before hand?
just been playing the Bad Company 2 multiplayer beta on my AxBox for the past three hours.
AWESOME.
That good? Were you a Battlefield/Bad Company fan before hand?To be honest I'd never played any of them before, so it was totally new to me.
i found my old Gameboy Camera game! it's the best because they just threw in bizarre shit everywhere to pad it out. like there's a dj feature where you make bizarre grating chiptunes out of sound effects and all the music is great and theres this weird art style that switches between pixel stuff and photomontage shit.
I am currently downloading the AvP Multiplayer Demo on Steam. . .
I am hoping that it is good.
Have you tried this yet? I got the demo on PS3 but cant seem to find any games, would seem if I wanted to play this I have to use the invite friend option to get started... unfortunately I don't have 7 other friends who have this who I can invite.
Apparently the matchmaking in the demo is terrible and broken.
From multiple first hand experiences, it can take from 5 to 30 minutes to find a game. And that's if you even find one. Best to get into groups of friends or something.
I played the AVP demo on Xbox for a little while yesterday. It took me like less than 2 minutes to find matches most of the time.Yeah, apparently it's pretty much fine on consoles. I suppose they spent less time on the PC matchmaking because it's only going to be present in the demo.
but I seriously wish they would stop putting in the sprint button/aim down sights into new fps's these days.. it works for call of duty but it feels clunky and it's just not that fun.I don't get this.
Those must be the people that got stuck on a puzzle and gave up. Some of em are pretty tricky..
I totally disagree. I like for bullets to go where I want them to go, not just spray everywhere within a box on the screen.
that's what's stupid about it, it's not fun when normal shooting = BULLETS GO EVERYWEHRENormal shooting? :fogetshrug:
ADS and Sprint add complexity. I like complexity. I like to know I have the option to spray and the option to aim. As well as the option to Sprint, walk, crouch, or crawl.
Normal shooting? :fogetshrug:
You mean from the hip?
no . thats anoter reason i dislike aiming down the sights all the time, in console games it literally locks on to your target even with a sniper rifle which si fucking ridiculous
half life 1 autoaim is the worst autoaimisn't that the one where it auto aims their torso at all times and you can't do a fucking thing about it?
isn't that the one where it auto aims their torso at all times and you can't do a fucking thing about it?
I thought Uncharted 2 was the most cinematic game I'd played in a while, but this one blows it completely out of the water. Usually I can't be bothered going back and doing a second "light side/dark side" run, but this time I am actively looking forward to it!
It says a lot that I'm over halfway through my second playthrough and I'm still not bored of the game!
i'm playing no more heroes 2I had no idea this was out. Not that I've touched my Wii in well over a year.
i'm playing no more heroes 2
Bioshock 2
How does it compare to the first?
:( lucky prick
Just picked up Bioshock 1. playing it ....now!
This is something I really have to do. I've bought Bioshock 2 but I'm not gonna play it till I've finished the first one.
Gonna pick up No More Heroes 2 tomorrow. maybe. If my Wal-Mart has it... They most likely wont, since they hardly carry any non-kiddy games for the Wii. May pick up some older games from the Video Store thats going out of business when they are selling the older pre-played games for less than $40 (And that was the GCN/PS2 section)
are you talking about the first or second oneSounds like the first one. but I have not played the second one yet.
Also, Heavy Rain looks really boring (oh man, that's so close minded of me to say! i must just not get it).
yeah, i've never seen nmh at a walmart
if this is sarcasm then yes actually, it probably is just you being closed-minded. people making sarcastic jokes about being closed-minded is usually a really good indicator of someone being closed-minded about something. shrugging it off, heh, yeah i get it IDIOTS, it's just a piece of shit, ya understand?I was being sarcastic. But this comment makes no sense since you know 0 about heavy rain. It's a game that is coming off really, really pretentious. I've looked a lot into it, and it just looks like one huge bore. :\
if you aren't being sarcastic then sorry, i hope i didn't annoy you but it's true for times when people do act like this.
although i know 0 about heavy rain.
it does look bad:its not that bad, its not for everyone tho
Sounds like the first one. but I have not played the second one yet.
Interestingly, thats where I got my copy today. But not at the one in town. I was kinda surprised... Oh well, employee discount :D
Well, my dad got new PC parts and we put them together. He got an AMD Phenom 2 550 X2 and we got a motherboard that allows you to unlock 2 other cores. So he got a quad core processor for £64. It's really fast too.
With that he got 2 gigs DDR3 at 1600Mhz and an ATI Radeon 5770 that does DX11.
Have just spent the last 2 hours playing Crysis Warhead on all-enthusiast settings. So incredible to see it in real life and not just on youtube videos where people post FRAPS captures of Crysis to boast about how big their rig is.
To be fair to Crysis it's a good game and I enjoy it a lot. There's a lot more fun to be had than in GTA.
Fallout 3 autoaim makes sniper bullets miss. I really don't see the logic there at all.
my god just beat 1 ending of heavy rain and it was good I almost walked away with the best ending if i would of got the FBI agent to link the crime but sadly i was missing something.
Beat Bioshock 2. The ending was better than I thought it would be. According to steam it took me 32 hours, Though this includes time spent in menus and idling. so I'd guess on actually gameplay it'd be more like 27-28 hours.
Also I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet.
I just finished Bioshock 2, and my total playtime was 9 hours. So I really don't know how you could be sitting on a near 30 hour play time.Hard Mode with the Vita-Chambers off (though I remember you telling me you turned them off to) I also explored every location and did not leave till I could figure out how to access areas otherwise cut off. and collected all of the Adam I possibly could with the little sisters. Also have a very meticulous nature.
I now have no idea what I should play.
Is Dante any good? TRU has a pretty good deal going for Battlefield BC 2 this coming week and I'm thinking the second game I want to get is Dante. It's either that or Left 4 Dead 2, but I don't have Live up and running so I wouldn't mind skipping out on L4D2 for something else if it's decent.
Just got Littlebigplanet on PSP, it great, besides the lack of any online multiplaying :cry:That's exactly why I don't like it as much as PS3 LBP.
Better than Clear Sky? I didn't like Clear Sky at all.
it does look bad:for those who have played it: is this what heavy rain is actually like? i've heard lots of people say that heavy rain is DIFFERENT from indigo prophecy, but i'm really not seeing that. it basically looks like the same really shitty movie with arbitrary interactive bits where you need to hit button patterns to pluck the character's nosehairs or something equally meaningless.
Medievil. They should make a new sequel or HD remix of the original for PlayStation 3. Such a classic!aaaaa this was the best game
for those who have played it: is this what heavy rain is actually like? i've heard lots of people say that heavy rain is DIFFERENT from indigo prophecy, but i'm really not seeing that. it basically looks like the same really shitty movie with arbitrary interactive bits where you need to hit button patterns to pluck the character's nosehairs or something equally meaningless.
i'm all for coming up with new ways to creatively use the interactivity of videogames, but this is the absolute worst way to go about doing it.
HOORAY FOR DAVID CAGE, FOUNDER OF THE INNOVATIVE ASS-WIPING SIMULATOR
for those who have played it: is this what heavy rain is actually like? i've heard lots of people say that heavy rain is DIFFERENT from indigo prophecy, but i'm really not seeing that. it basically looks like the same really shitty movie with arbitrary interactive bits where you need to hit button patterns to pluck the character's nosehairs or something equally meaningless.Okay. so I haven't PLAYED this game, but I watched my roommate play it for 3 hours (which, as it turns out, is just as good as PLAYING it for 3 hours). The presentation is pretty good, the graphics are nice (far from perfect, but good) and the voice acting is generally garbage. Remember the cutscenes from Resident Evil 4 where you had to press A or mash B really fast, and depending on your timing it "changes" the cutscene? There are a LOT of "fight" scenes in Heavy Rain exactly like that, but instead of doing it 3 times and then going back to playing a game, you do it for 5 minutes straight because that IS the game. Meh.
i'm all for coming up with new ways to creatively use the interactivity of videogames, but this is the absolute worst way to go about doing it.
HOORAY FOR DAVID CAGE, FOUNDER OF THE INNOVATIVE ASS-WIPING SIMULATOR
FF13 for the 360 has leaked on to usenet so I'm downloading that to play but I'm not entirely sure I'll make it through the game because man oh man that company has been on a roll with churning out the stinkers
Well if you're just downloading it anyway, why not give it a fair shot and play it through? I'm still waiting for next week to come so I can make good on my preorder to finally play it. Only thing I'm really worried about is how many impressions seem to "complain" about the game's severe linearity until the very end though with the way gamers these days (or any days) talk I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit overblown.that's the thing, I'm just downloading it so I don't really feel the obligation to push through the whole thing like I would if I had bought it. I'll give it a fair shot but if I'm not having fun or interested after the first 3-5 hours then I'll just tuck those discs away and forget about 'em.
But yeah, forget Lightning, it's all about Sazh for me. :P
Hey yo I can now authoritatively say that Final Fantasy 13 is ridiculously bad. The game itself boils down to looking around corners for treasure chests and timing potions in battle, you can't do anything in this game other than walk past people and they talk or walk up to a glowing indicator to have your character jump on something. Everything is automated, you don't even have to push a button to talk to an NPC they just say their part when you walk past them. I can get why people would call this game linear, you are literally walking in a straight line for hours.
The script is something else too. I don't know if its a japanese thing or what, but every character is a mouthbreather, so much of the dialogue so far has been "uuuuhhh" "hhhhuuuuuuu" "aaahhhhh" and the younger ones can't seem to control their vocal chords because when they're not talking they're squeaking. The script is also filled with terrible one liners, so much so that I think the translation studio must have been really amusing themselves and having a field day, right off the bat: "Heros don't need plans!", "Moms are tough", "Didn't I tell you? Moms are tough"
Final Fantasy 13: Moms are Tough
I decided to just skip 13, not only because I don't have a PS3 or 360, but also because I'm waiting for Versus XIII. It'll probably be better. The ones that Nomura had a lot of input in tend to be very good.man I dunno, the script in this game is so BAD that I wouldn't be getting my hopes up about anything even remotely related to final fantasy.
oh yeah and a good part of the music in the beginning is some really bad squealing guitar solos.
HEEEEYYYYYYY SQUARESOFT: this stuff that you're doing, and doing a whole lot of, and spending a bunch of money on... it's really bad, dogs
oh yeah and a good part of the music in the beginning is some really bad squealing guitar solos.this is the most disappointing thing you said, since i had expected everything else from that game to be dreadful from those early reviews that came out. it's a shame. the guy who did the soundtrack has done some music that i'd legitimately listen to outside of the games it was in. sometimes he goes totally nuts and does music that HE wants to do, even if it's not fitting at all for the game. he did the soundtrack to unlimited saga and, while it was a truly awful game, the soundtrack is really well done and surprisingly diverse for what sort of game it's supposed to be. it's a really boring fantasy board game made into a videogame(no joke) and half of the soundtrack is fairly typical fantasy shit and the other half is totally ridiculous electronic/modern sounding music. who the shit puts saxophone solos into fantasy game songs??? you can really FEEL how little he actually thought of the game itself, and how he just ran with some ideas he had independent of the sinking ship he was on. if you hadn't played the game, you'd probably have no idea the music came from a really awful fantasy game. i don't know how he got away with that either, since everything out of square has been uniformly empty for the last decade. it's like he just had a bunch of songs he was fucking around with and just had the producers throw them in the game or something.
Hey yo I can now authoritatively say that Final Fantasy 13 is ridiculously bad. The game itself boils down to looking around corners for treasure chests and timing potions in battle, you can't do anything in this game other than walk past people and they talk or walk up to a glowing indicator to have your character jump on something. Everything is automated, you don't even have to push a button to talk to an NPC they just say their part when you walk past them. I can get why people would call this game linear, you are literally walking in a straight line for hours.no fucking way. ahhaha no way. when the game was announced i read the designer's comments over how they are going to streamline things and bring it to new century or whatever. i sort of playfully imagined- adssdf how to explain this, like game designing is so bad nowdays. i don't know if it was any better before (propably not) but i jokingly thought that "heh knowing how designers think... it's gonna be a hella meaningless game (in sense of how little you need to interract with anything everything will be catered for you etc etc)". it was a joke! don't make it happen!! really shallow understanding of gameplay/game designing and it seems to be a common problem. BLAH BLAH BLAH
The script is something else too. I don't know if its a japanese thing or what, but every character is a mouthbreather, so much of the dialogue so far has been "uuuuhhh" "hhhhuuuuuuu" "aaahhhhh" and the younger ones can't seem to control their vocal chords because when they're not talking they're squeaking. The script is also filled with terrible one liners, so much so that I think the translation studio must have been really amusing themselves and having a field day, right off the bat: "Heros don't need plans!", "Moms are tough", "Didn't I tell you? Moms are tough"
Final Fantasy 13: Moms are Tough
Nerd venting? Maybe just in the "Anime sucks" section. If you think that is all the article is about skip to "THE MANDATORY PARTIES" part.:welp: he's a bitch who can't handle his booze?
i kind of want to make fun of that article but i can't read more than five lines at a time without my eyes glazing over from all the self-righteous nerd venting. there was something about snes games turning yellow from smoke in shops or some other silly shit i think. actually i kind of like the idea of japanese people just doing their own thing while western anime fans just use the whole country as a blank screen to project some dumb fantasy life onto and get upset when they find out everyone still hates them.
Okay, here's one mostly related: In many Japanese offices, you're required to scream "Good morning!" at the top of your lungs, clapping your hands to your thighs, as soon as you enter the office area every morning. Everyone in the office then shouts "Good morning!" back to you. At my orientation for one company, the Human Resources Girl — whose face (figuratively) literally screamed "Hall Monitor" — was going over the "Good Morning!" protocol. Her explanation weird despite its terseness: "This is how adults interact in Japan." Most of the people at the orientation, like me, were under twenty-five. "Before we move onto the next item, does anyone have any questions?" I seriously and portentously asked a question, then, which I thought was hilarious: "If we're the first one in the office in the morning, do we still have to scream 'Good Morning' and clap our hands to the sides of our legs?" Her answer was immediate, and humorless: "Yes." "Well, I mean, there's no one else around to hear it, right?" "You still have to do it. It's the rule. Every employee must do this. That's why we call it 'protocol.'" This instant was actually the very first time I begin to ponder the logistics of actually going ahead and being homeless. You know, cardboard, up against concrete, is not only not uncomfortable — it's pretty good for your spine!This is my favorite part BTW.
I pushed further: "What if I am the second person in the office, and the first person is someone with whom I have, previously, managed to successfully cultivate a congenial personal relationship? What if it's a person whose first and last name I know, with whom I share interests and hobbies, and we've previously agreed that we think this 'Good morning' shit is some serious bullshit, and we just agree to be like, 'Hey, what's up' to one another in the morning and we've also agreed that hey, if anyone else asks, we'll just go ahead and say 'Oh yeah, that dude totally screamed "Good morning" to me this morning'?"
The HR girl didn't even blink: "You still have to carry out the customary 'Good Morning.'"
elaborate?
This is my favorite part BTW.awesome part man. i'm glad you really like it
does he really say that
:welp: he's a bitch who can't handle his booze?
awesome part man. i'm glad you really like it*claps* good posts. TY.
My neighbor, once, smoked in his apartment, sitting by the window. I could never see his face, though I could definitely smell his tobacco, because the smoke exited his window and promptly entered mine. That was a spring nearly ruined. I once put a note in his mailbox: "You know, if you're going to blow the smoke out the window — if you don't love smoking enough to just close the windows and turn your apartment into a hot-box, maybe you should just quit." He never quit.
this is a way over-used example, but this is lost odyssey's world map theme, written by nobuo uematsu. sounds pretty alright until it gets to 1:40 and then it's just like jesus christ how the fuck does this sound GOOD, how is this what people actually WANT in their soundtracks. yesss, guitars, +1000000 sick-as pointsyes, it is what they want because people are no longer capable of parsing things as anything other than epic wins or epic fails anymore.
but manhe points out also early on in his article that he is going to talk about the little things that bother him. The tape on his cup thing wasn't one of things that interested me admittedly. He even says that he doesn't know why he hates it when they do that.
there are so many big problems japan has that this guy completely ignored to talk about how he doesn't like tape put on his drinks
why is japan so often the focus of this nerd-vent shit? why are there so many articles about japan?
i would like to see more reasons why someone hates indonesia because their traditional music consists of banging on pots and pans or maybe a rant about getting fined for chewing gum in public in Laos or the ups and downs of yurt livin in mongolia
Also, about that article, he's not really being serious and he knows how trite everything he's saying is. Tim Rogers is one of the only good game journalists and his whole thing is how off-topic and long winded and faux pretentious he gets.
http://actionbutton.net/
This is his site and it's one of the only video game sites even worth looking at.
The Kotaku article and that actionbutton review have a disturbingly large set of commonalities between them.What do you mean?
I couldn't have been the only one who noticed that.
I don't know about the land of raw fish and tentacle porn, but we usually get paid on a Friday unless we're paid monthly, but I suppose it's just another excuse for buying Battlefield instead :rolleyes:
Wow.Elaborate? I've only heard good things about it.
I played the Just Cause 2 demo. If the entire game is like that, that's really quite terrible.
Elaborate? I've only heard good things about it.
Hey, I just finished playing through Mass Effect 2. I have one question thought
Does anyone know if the game chooses who dies during the ending parts? Like it somehow managed not to kill the main characters that I used in my normal squad. Does the game choose that on purpose, or did I just happen to get really lucky with who got killed?
because everything I've seen about Just Cause 2 so far looks amazing :(
You can safe all of your crew members by choosing the correct people for each task and starting the suicide mission right after the Collectors kidnap your crew. You also lose one squad member for each ship modification you did not research. To further increase the chance of no one dying you have to do their loyalty missions.Interesting. Except I used Miranda for the biotic barrier thing and she survived. That is possibly because though Jack was already dead a this point. She survived the entire game though, along with Grunt, Garrus, Tali, and Samara. Maybe it is bad of me, but I honestly didn't really have much concern for many of the other characters anyway (except for Legion who was totally balling and awesome).
For the suicide tube tech expert you need to choose either Tali or Legion. For the secondary squad leading always choose Miranda, Garrus or Jacob. For the biotic barrier choose Samara or Jack. For the escort anyone loyal should do. For holding the line you should leave all your meat there to make sure no one dies (Garrus, Grunt, Zaeed).
Would you kindly tell me if Bioshock 2 is worth the money?I would say it isn't, mostly because you've already played everything that is interesting about the bioshock series in the first game. Its not like its a bad game, its just that there isn't anything going for it except most of the same gameplay combined with a far inferior plot. Its basically another countless example of a good game that got an unnecessary sequel just because everybody seemed to want to give them more money.
this is the most disappointing thing you said, since i had expected everything else from that game to be dreadful from those early reviews that came out. it's a shame. the guy who did the soundtrack has done some music that i'd legitimately listen to outside of the games it was in. sometimes he goes totally nuts and does music that HE wants to do, even if it's not fitting at all for the game. he did the soundtrack to unlimited saga and, while it was a truly awful game, the soundtrack is really well done and surprisingly diverse for what sort of game it's supposed to be. it's a really boring fantasy board game made into a videogame(no joke) and half of the soundtrack is fairly typical fantasy shit and the other half is totally ridiculous electronic/modern sounding music. who the shit puts saxophone solos into fantasy game songs??? you can really FEEL how little he actually thought of the game itself, and how he just ran with some ideas he had independent of the sinking ship he was on. if you hadn't played the game, you'd probably have no idea the music came from a really awful fantasy game. i don't know how he got away with that either, since everything out of square has been uniformly empty for the last decade. it's like he just had a bunch of songs he was fucking around with and just had the producers throw them in the game or something.I think the OST is floating around on bittorrent or youtube so give that a listen, but from what I've heard so far it's mostly been shitty synth guitars and the battle theme that you've probably heard a million times played over every single video you've seen of the game
anyway, i was hoping he'd kinda take that approach with ff13, but i'm doubting that's the case if you're not finding yourself particularly impressed by it.
but he quit square a couple weeks ago, so what does that tell you about what it's like to work there, even though he was pretty much their MAIN COMPOSER
It's really different to any RPG I've played so far, and I'm not sure if I entirely like it; I wouldn't call it an RPG either, dunno. It's just really... different. I'm curious to see how it apparently opens up like 20 hours in or w/e!I think the term you're looking for is dungeon crawler. This is what happens when you slap a story on a dungeon crawler. It's probably got the best battle system of the series (I'm excluding tactics, etc). And if you like ffx or ffx-2 then you'll like this because it's exactly like those two games.
I just dunno. Just watched 2 full and complete video reviews for Final Fantasy XIII. They were terrible. The Gamespot one opened with a guy saying 'Two worlds....Six Unlikely Heroes....and a horde of Fearsome Beasts. It's Final Fantasy, all right' or something like that. Something at least as bad as that. I don't know. I put them on. I am wondering if I am done with this stuff now, or if it still has some sort of appeal to me. I mean watching the footage, and how it has been described, it looks totally awful. Not a new kind of awful of anything, but here I am re-considering the same old crap as being something for me to spend my time on. I'm not even watching the Battlestar Galactica spin-off because all that bullshit just got a bit too much. I seem to be interested in this FFXIII, though, probably because it is set in a world you get to explore or at least pretend you get to explore and you imagine all the cool shit that might be going on in it and that sweeping music is going on and you just get swept up along with it. Except I don't, anymore, really, because all the bad stuff that didn't bother me when I am a kid bother me now. The excitement I feel when I hear some piano line in the distance while the camera is gliding in and out of crystal caves and big open fields and weird looking cities up on mountains and deserts and all of that is still in there...deep inside. That cool stuff I liked and still like to indulge in sometimes, or whatever, is totally strangled by every other aspect of this game and almost every game. Like I could maybe even get on board with the 6 rogues face up against an empire crap if they tried to do it with some intelligence, but nobody has ever done that so maybe you can't.Wait I've never watched the original Battlestar Galactica. I'm starting with the spin off. I have to say it seems like some of the smartest Sci-fi I've ever seen and since its prequel material, I'll watch all of it first than actually move onto Battlestar Galactica.
I don't know. I hope I am finished with it all. Everytime I let my attention wander in the way of it the strength I feel that I am wasting my time and actively making myself stupider.
- "so what's the plan?"
- "go in guns blazing"
- "that's not a plan!"
- "real heroes don't need a plan!"
some amazing dialogue right here guys
Says who? No-one's obligated to give a good rating to a game merely because of hype. . .
Says who? No-one's obligated to give a good rating to a game merely because of hype. . .
yo if you haven't gotten up to the end of chapter five prepare yourself for what I thought was a fucking HUGE difficulty spike. i mean it took me four-five shots to just think "oooook what do i have to do here", it's not as if things had been gradually getting harder, this one was out of nowhere. ahhh well.I'm also hoping the next one would be a bit more traditional in some ways. I would like to have a world map again (just take a look at Dragon Quest 8; a world map in that style in a current generation RPG would rock) or at least a world something similar to FF12, just with more story and maybe less random huge mmorpg-esque areas. Basically I wouldn't mind some more RPG elements but other than that, I'm fine with the new gameplay tweaks. I like the battle system a lot and I don't mind that you only control one character. I'm already enjoying the battle system more than anything else in the series except FF10 but I think this one might be better once you get full control over the system.
also DS, I agree with your post for the most part, but honestly i'm hoping they go with something a little more traditional for their next outing. mad props to square for trying something new, like you said, but in some cases this feels ridiculously streamlined (the fact that you can only control one character in battle is a bit of a killer; i'd really like an AUTO MODE or a MANUAL MODE at times (hope is god damn useless, even moreso on AI)). i dunno, i guess it's just a little too simplified! at least it's nice to look at.
I wonder what people would think of Final Fantasy XIII if they didn't call it Final Fantasy.
Hey DS, I read the GamePro review and they said that FFXIII is basically just "a continuous straight line" with a few bends here and there up until the free roaming parts far, far, far in the game. Does this seem true to you? I read how you felt about the first chapter, but does all just feel like a "point A to point B" sort of exercise afterwards?That's exactly how it is. The thing is that the first chapter was literally just a straight line and it was just, you know, TOO MUCH. After that the areas do branch out a bit and there is some variety but it's still pretty much a straight line just as GamePro review says. You do not get to explore at all and the game is extremely linear just like FF10 was. FF13 takes it to a new extreme though as there are no shops, towns or anything like that. It can sound really bad but really, once you start playing it hasn't bothered me too much, just like Uncharted 2 being linear didn't bother me. I still think it's not the best decision to go with as I said earlier though, I would definitely prefer more exploration over this and that's one of the main reasons I prefer FF12 over FF13. In addition of completely missing exploration, there are no side-quests or anything to do besides from running forward and progressing the story. I loved how you had a lot of optional stuff to do in FF12 right from the beginning and beating challenging hunts and hunting for hidden treasures felt really rewarding. FF13 is missing all that, and it's a shame. I have read that it's going to have similar hunting system later in the game when it opens up but it sucks that it's only some end-game content.
You don't have to look at the names when you pick paradigms, since you always see the roles on the right (at least I don't).
GTA4.
man, chapters 4 and 5 are pretty uneventful, the game's already getting a bit boring and while the battle system is pretty fun, it doesn't have enough strategy involved. still a better system than anything before ff10 though.idk i liked 4's and 7's a lot more than this new one, they both brought some cool new shit to the table (ATB and Limit Breaks/materia). The biggest innovation in this one is that it pretty much plays itself most of the time.
idk i liked 4's and 6's a lot more than this new one, they both brought some cool new shit to the table (ATB and Limit Breaks/materia). The biggest innovation in this one is that it pretty much plays itself most of the time.
NP: Mega Man 10
I wish they'd make new SNES style X games though. :(
Uh yeah a lot of the "hardcore" fans of the original fallout games hated it because of how much it differs from the first 2.
just got FFXIII and it board the shit out of me, a swing and a massive miss. I started playing Diablo 2 LOD again, i forgot how awesome the Barbarian is, Leap attack is oh so sweet
i also cannot understand why anyone would want to play fpses with invert mouse. it just seems wrong!!playing without invert mouse to me feels like I'm playing an FPS for the first time ever :)
in the year 20xx, buses come every two seconds.That level was a bitch!
fuck you, megaman 10.
Is anyone else playing Yakuza 3? I always wanted to try the series, it sounds really cool, but the other versions in English have been on the PS2 which I don't touch anymore. The reviews of Yakuza 3 have been great but I'm curious what other people think.Man, I want it as well but can't afford it now. I'll get it eventually though.
Also, I'm surprised to see how I don't really care about the game being linear anymore. The latter dungeons are larger (and a lot longer) and the game has been a blast from chapter 7 onwards minus the first half of chapter 8. Of course I'd still prefer if the game had more exploration and there was an overworld and towns but it's not so bad. With a better beginning and more freedom FF13 would be a really fucking good game but given that the game is pretty lengthy and the beginning crap lasted for maybe 2-3 hours, it's not such a big deal I suppose. Still, it has gone from average to pretty good to great so hopefully that keeps up. I can't say it's a fantastic game by any means but at least it's better than FF9 and 10, I still prefer FF12 though. It's a shame that the game has some big flaws because it really could have been so much better.
I'm not that fussed about the linearity at all either, but I've found that after chapter 7 the game has been on a steady decline. 7 & 8 were fantastic imo, 9 was... eh. Not too bad overall but the big plot reveal was a little hammy (don't even get me started on chapter 10's...)! Then chapter 10 comes along and holy shit it's just terrible, it's like HUGE PLOT DUNGEONS WITH COOL DESIGNS... and then they stick you in this generic shitty factory and I don't know, I'm hoping chapter 11 is way better because atm I am bored to tears. I'm really liking the battle system tho, like you said definitely one of the best in the series!Yeah, I just started playing chapter 10 and this is pretty dull dungeon plus I hate the enemies. :( I really liked chapter 9 though, it was a bit too long though.
everyone is catching kangaskhans with the pokéwalker. kind of ruins the rarity maybe? idk
Got Uncharted and started playing it. Currently on chapter 3. I really like the puzzle and platforming elements, but I really hate FPSes... What percentage of the game is FPS? Is the game more of a shooter than a platformer? (I was hoping that it wasn't). I just wish I had the option to stealth my way through certain areas, but it looks like I'm forced to just shoot everyone in sight.
Dragon age awakening it is lots of fun
Perfect Dark on my XBox. That's what everyone should be playing.
still, i can't help but find the game disturbingly boring. for me, there's not an awful lot to be nostalgic about in the game. the level and story design is really deplorablehonestly have to agree with you here. i haven't played the campaign since the game first came out, and i had NO idea what i was doing, or where i was supposed to go. the level design makes no sense at all. still, i'm enjoying playing it, but it's not quite as awesome as i thought it was going to be.
Also, is there a straight Team Deathmatch? or are there only objective modes?
Realized I still have a 50 dollar check from my grand parents so I used it to pick up Bad Company 2. Played a little of both Campaign and multiplayer.although i dont think leaning would work in a non-cover based game, as being able to freely lean would either mean your advantage to leaning would be incredible (being able to have a good view without exposing much of yourself) or the opposite and it's hard tricky to see anything (making the whole thing pointless)
BTW: its good thus far but I have a few nitpicks about the controls:
Why can't I Sprint at any other angle other than straight forward? I miss being able to sprint off diagonally in MW2.
Also can't have more than 2 key's to a single action. Its driving me nuts.
Non control issue: Also Wish there was a tad more control over class customization.
Also, is there a straight Team Deathmatch? or are there only objective modes?
Even though MW2 doesn't have lean, I actually think this game needs it more. I've never felt the need to lean in MW2 for some reason, but when I'm playing BC2 I feel as though I would have benefited from it. oh well.
honestly have to agree with you here. i haven't played the campaign since the game first came out, and i had NO idea what i was doing, or where i was supposed to go. the level design makes no sense at all. still, i'm enjoying playing it, but it's not quite as awesome as i thought it was going to be.indeed. i kinda remember the layout of the levels enough to get through it but everything you do in the campaign is just pretty boring. it all gets really tedious when i'm not just blasting everything in sight.
I don't even really like the squad deathmatch really, in BC2. The game just works better as an objective based game.exactly what i mean. i think it was purely in there for people who were coming to this expecting a more MW2 orientated game
indeed. i kinda remember the layout of the levels enough to get through it but everything you do in the campaign is just pretty boring. it all gets really tedious when i'm not just blasting everything in sight.ahaha, that sounds infinitely more entertaining then playing through these campaign levels. the level design is just... just awful. ugh.
the most fun i've had in the game since purchasing it yesterday was exploiting minor bugs to get the guy from the shooting range actually into the range with me so i could pile remote mines on him and fill his head with crossbow arrows and throwing knives.
Been playing Call of Pripyat. Everything I hated about the first two STALKER games is fixed in this one. It's pretty awesome.
i wonder if resonance of fate is any good?
I beat CoP. I like how the ending mentions pretty much every significant sidequest in the game and what happened to the characters involved, depending on the way you did things.
Oh that's cool. Now I really want it.I can wholeheartedly recommend it. My only gripes are the sound effects (the guns sound legitimately awful, get a mod for it), and that the ironsights aren't all aligned properly (again, mods). I suppose the shortness of the whole thing is a valid thing to complain about, but it's got decent replay value, and freeplay is enjoyable anyway, really.
I can wholeheartedly recommend it. My only gripes are the sound effects (the guns sound legitimately awful, get a mod for it), and that the ironsights aren't all aligned properly (again, mods). I suppose the shortness of the whole thing is a valid thing to complain about, but it's got decent replay value, and freeplay is enjoyable anyway, really.
Out of interest, how short is the length (won't affect my decision to buy it, I love the STALKER games) is it shorter than Shadow of Chernobyl (took me around 12-16 hours for that one).It probably took me about that time, maybe an hour or so less. Also, the anomaly and artifact system is changed a lot. There are now massive anomaly sites, where there's a ton of anomalies, and artifacts hidden around the place. You've gotta whip out your detector to find said artifacts. It's much better, makes Artifact hunting a very viable method of income. Here's a screenshot of the detector stuff-
Like I'm not trying to dig into you man, but if being immersed in a game is more important than social interaction, well.
monster hunter stuffi'm really glad that they aren't removing any of the weapon types this time around (like they did for mh tri). and we're getting the switch axe, too!
i'm really glad that they aren't removing any of the weapon types this time around (like they did for mh tri). and we're getting the switch axe, too!
How far are you on ROF i'm on the 8th Chapter and all lol it's hard to just upgrade 1 gun type so i used a handgun with Zephyr and got 3 lv on that lol. and vash is duel wielding but sadly i keep adding crap to my machine Gun so Zephyr keeps on trailing behind on getting duels :( but i could easily jump that gap if I didn't have standers to keep mostly to the same gun type that they where given.i'm on chapter 5. the game is pretty hard so far, i've been losing too much money from dying in battles
Since my PS3 won't play FFXIII, I went back to FFX to pass the time when I'm bored. Still just as fun as I remember it.
i'm on chapter 5. the game is pretty hard so far, i've been losing too much money from dying in battles
i did come across some advice though. apparently, it's a really good idea to level up every weapon on every character. like for example if you have a character who is great with machine guns but his handgun & grenade levels are shit, then you should fix that. because for each level up, you'll get +hp and +attack so battles will be a lot easier in the long run
personally my balancing is pretty screwed up right now. my leanne is like level 20, my zephyr is 14, and my vash is 10 :(
You can start using the pedometer as soon as you put a pokémon in the box. The connection option is on the main menu, rather than in-game.Worth noting that the Pokewalker apparently skips some moves and evolutions, but that can all be fixed up once you get to a move tutor I suppose.
Why wont it play FFXIII?
I dunno, it played fine for about an hour and a half, then it started freezing. Now all of my PS3 games freeze up after a few minutes. Apparently it's not just me either because I found a forum, and no one really seems to know what the deal is.
im playing. A GAme!update: beat A GAme.
That has happened to alot of people, and not just for FFXIII, for me it started on GTA4 last year, it got so bad that i just got a new PS3 :mad:
If i had to venture a guess its ethier the Blue ray disk or hard-drive as my old one still plays DVDs just fine :hmm:
i like buying games
why does it feel bad, eddie edson?
Because I feel I should be in the library or something!
It's a Saturday after a long, hardworking week so I finally snapped and bought it.
I'm off to shoot some hispanic people brb :)
Because I feel I should be in the library or something!So is it good? I heard from someone else here that it isn't that great... and I greatly disliked the first one...
It's a Saturday after a long, hardworking week so I finally snapped and bought it.
I'm off to shoot some hispanic people brb :)
avalanche studios is making their way. you did not believe in avalanche studios, but look who had the last laugh!!!!!
Currently stuck on a certain major boss battle on disc 2 of FFXIII. Bastard has a "let me kill your party in one shot" group attack that I'm trying to deal with.sentinel is your friend
In the meantime, made some progress in Red Steel 2 and Pokemon Silver. Picked up Warioware DIY but it's tough figuring out how to make a microgame in that thing, so I'm playing a lot of the default ones for ideas.
We need more JC2 discussion! More of you grumpy gits should buy it!
knowing your game buying habits I give it less than a week
sentinel is your friend
avalanche studios is making their way. you did not believe in avalanche studios, but look who had the last laugh!!!!!all you need to do is say that avalanche studios now does web development as well and you'll be the most active studio in gw history!
Fuck Poliwrath. My attacks either do barely any damage, or HEAL it. Fucking pokemon.grass / electric type is your friend
grass / electric type is your friendI should get some of those.
Is it Bartafdjaksdfasfklas? Because I know a friend mentioned they had Doom cast on them and I was like wtf because that never happened to me. A trick to sort of circumvent this is to summon your eidolon before you die; when the doom counter runs out, your eidolon will revive you, and bam! Easy workaround.
iirc they're backwards compatible but not the other way roundDepends on the game, actually. For some reason, some games don't allow PS1 controllers.
So, snapped and bought JC yet? eh? EH?
Playing Dragon Age Origins, Just Cause 2 and Borderlands. DAO's long as hell especially if you take the time to do everything. JC2 is full of glitches but nevertheless, addictive. Borderlands...I'm stuck at the last boss with my sniper dude + no online ability. He/it/whatever is such a bitch to go against.
The Destroyer? Just pump ammo into him for like 2 minutes and he dies like a bitch.P much this. It was a terribly dull fight.
Oh shit, Riddick's difficulty affected me more strongly then I originally thought. I had a Dream/Nightmare last night that I had to fight a parade of mechs in dark Athena.
Bad Company 2 on PC, and Resonance of fate on PS3
I managed to skip the battle system tutorial and ended up dying about 3 times on the first fight.
Oh fuck... can someone explain the Tri-Attack to me? I know how to store the points, but whenever I start it, only one or two of the guys attack. But other than that, once you figure out the battle system... I'm not gonna say its easy, because I've still been on the verge of losing a few times, but its not as insanely hard. (I've heard a few people compare it to Demon's Souls in term of difficulty)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Figured out the Tri-attack, it completely rapes in arena right now (rank 4-1 to 4-4)
My dad has become obsessed with JC2 but he only has the demo. I have installed it off my steam account on his PC but I'm not gonna tell him the PW unless he buys me lots of beer.
My evil plan is flawless1!!
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Chapter 8 on RoF -- Just got the new SMG from the Dakota Vein, and am tearing through... everything.I go nuts for any kind of gun customization, but are those all the attachments on that gun or all the 'possible' attachments?
Also, the gun customization is kinda ridiculous. I mean Seriously (http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4456/pict0965y.jpg). Theres sights below the handle, and in front of a scope. Plus it has 7 barrels.
How long is chapter 11 in final fantasy 13 if I dont do missions
I've been playing Lunar Silver Star Harmony as i wait for Mario Galaxy 2 oh and also BlazBlue Portable both great games.
I adore all the Working Designs Lunar games, and I wanted to play it but I was hesitant because I didn't think it would measure up to the Playstation versions.
Heh dont worry it measures up just fine though it looks like it was made by rpg maker XP i really only wanted to play it so i can play Lunar 2 Eternal Blue everyone thinks 2 is amazing im upto the Black Dragon in one though can't wait to beat it.
I hope you aren't staunch with your arms firmly folded here. This game is a big cheat but I don't think it is even close to the worst thing in games.i found this game pretty cheap on ebay and bought it just now based on what you've said in here. YOU BETTER BE RIGHT OR YOU + ME ARE GONNA HAVE WORD
i found this game pretty cheap on ebay and bought it just now based on what you've said in here. YOU BETTER BE RIGHT OR YOU + ME ARE GONNA HAVE WORD
fortunately my expectations are remarkably low and i'm in the mood for an rpg at the moment, so as long as it's NOT BLUE DRAGON i will probably be able to play it for a while.
So I found out some guy I used to be friends with who turned out to be a total dick stole my Hitman 2 disc a while ago, without me realising. I am now playing Hitman Contracts. It is not as good.
Blood Money is good. I like the Hitman series!I hate hitman: blood money because there's an atari shooter I had when I was a babey called blood money and whenever I feel nostalgic and go looking for it to play a few rounds I have to wade through all the fucking hitman gamefaqs.
Back to Lunar 2 DAMN its great though i find it frustrating i usually sleep when i'm home from school so i don't game as much as i used to.man yeah, lunar 1 and 2 are awesome. :( makes me sad that they never made third one. i replayed both of them last year and they are just so much fun, especially eternal blue.
anyone have a Game for me to play. all I have is a laptop and $0replay earthbound and mother 3
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Waiting for Conviction to arrive on Friday :D
Oh man, I'm playing ACTION FIST (http://teknopants.com/games/actionfist/) and it hella rules.
Goddamn look at that shit. This is what videogames are about!!
Action Fist looks amazing. Gotta give it a try when I get home. Can you play 2 player co-op over net?Didn't get a chance to play 2 player mode yet, but from what i saw in the options it is offline only.
Anyways, I've been replaying Crysis lately, and been playing GRID after finally getting it work on my PC.
Can you play 2 player co-op over net?
Just finished episode one of the new Sam and Max season; it wasn't their best work, but it managed to have some of the best Max quotes. I don't know if I should play each episode as it comes out or wait until the end to play the rest.
just started playing earthbound. I've played mother 3 and it was great. now I'm going back to the beginning and i am really excited about it!If you wanna go all the way back to the beginning then pick up "Earthbound Zero" (Mother) for the NES- Earthbound is Mother 2. The first game tells Gigyas's back story apparently. Oh, and Earlchip, check out God Medicine for GB- interesting little game- you can get a translation patch for the re-released version here (http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=godmed). Another is Magical Land of Wozz though I never finished it. Funny though.
Also Pokemon HeartGold. I don't know why I continue to play these games.to bully kids out of their lunch money
Ordered a PSP on Ebay, and bought Monster Hunter Freedom Unite and Metal Slug Anthology for when I have it. Looking forward to getting furiously pissed off at Monster Hunter's difficulty.
You should hack the psp and play "backups" i wouldnt call it illegal since Sony probably gave up on it so far this year it's only been third party developers.
You should hack the psp and play "backups" i wouldnt call it illegal since Sony probably gave up on it so far this year it's only been third party developers.This is actually my plan, but still, how can you think it's not illegal? Anyway, I'll probably just load it with SNES and PS1 roms. PSP doesn't have that many worthwile games to be honest. Mainly bought it for when Peace Walker comes out.
You should hack the psp and play "backups" i wouldnt call it illegal since Sony probably gave up on it so far this year it's only been third party developers.
or being able to use it as a joypad.I can't see this as being very appealing. The PSP's analog nub thing is pretty terrible, although I suppose it would suffice if you were desperate.
I can't see this as being very appealing. The PSP's analog nub thing is pretty terrible, although I suppose it would suffice if you were desperate.Actually, barring the analog nub, the PSP makes for a pretty decent joypad on a computer.
i'm playing stepmania on my PSP really addcitive
I just ordered Monster Hunter 3 (or tri?) and hopefully it will give me the fix I'm looking for.If you're looking for a classic RPG you'll probably be dissapointed. Also, play with a classic controller, playing with nunchuck and wiimote is pretty terrible.
I've been longing for a decent console rpg to play and after reading a lot of mixed reviews about Final Fantasy 13?-14? I decided to search elsewhere. I realised there were a few decent looking games out on the wii and normally I wouldn't think twice about playing my old dusty wii but after discovering the wii classic controller I figured I would give this console another chance.
I just ordered Monster Hunter 3 (or tri?) and hopefully it will give me the fix I'm looking for.
I was also looking into the Zelda game they have on the wii and originally I never planned on purchasing it because of that nunchuk bullshit but depending how well the classic controller plays I may have to rethink things. I like most am a huge fan of Ocarina of time.
Can anyone comfirm for me that the classic controller doesn't work on all games for the wii and if not, any ideas if it would work for the Zelda game?
They took out some pretty significant stuff, you're only missing out, really.
As for now im playing Final Fantasy VI Advance weird how much more i like it compared to the SNES version.
yeah but the sound quality is just soo awful
hamburg3rz...Nice nick.this coming from a "jamie"
A copy of Persona 3 FES care to donate?Great choice in game, but you might be better off waiting until July for Persona 3 Portable.
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don't let that fancy star map fool you. most of the planets are completely worthless. the biggest problem with mass effect i thought was that it's like...almost completely focused around combat. most of the sidequests are boring as hell. the story's pacing is very very strange too i thought. they hyped up being a SPECTRE for the entire intro and once you actually become one (about an hour in?) it's uh..... very underwhelming to say the least. there's also little to no character development. i didn't mind the dialogue too much, but i think that's because i'd rather Sheperd say stupid recycled action movie lines than the same anime lines i've heard in every jRPG ever.this is all true
i don't think the game is really interesting enough to be completely linear, and it'd probably be a much better game if there was a lot more emphasis on how much you can roam around space and randomly bump into interesting shit. in general i kinda feel like they were onto something there, but didn't take the non-linearity of the game all that seriously.
is the mass effect sequel any better?
yes, absolutely. to be honest i think i just want some kind of space themed Bethesda game because completely linear space rpgs tend to have really terrible stories. ancient killer zerg-robots and knockoff jedis are not interesting enough to keep me interested in mass effects story.yes!! i have been saying this for a while.
and yeah, i was thinking the same thing in regards to how Bioware handles the PC in pretty much all of their games. In Dragon Age: Origins it's the same way, although DA:O is lightyears better than Mass Effect. pretty much every Bioware game has the same premise, which revolves around a user created main character joining some kind of EXCLUSIVE DEADLY WARRIOR. jedis, spectres, wardens, same thing.i don't understand who out there has a NEED, as a player of videogames, to play as BIG IMPORTANT MAN. like every bioware game has that like it's some VITALLY IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING GAMES. i personally prefer playing as totally inconsequential people that nobody in the world gives half of a shit about. it's such a goddamn pain in the ass having to drag myself through one fucking ass-kissing npc after another to propel the fucking story.
Also pretty much everyone i know prefers KOTOR 1 to KOTOR 2, but with that new restored content mod that just came out I think 2 is easily better than the original.you are the first person i've talked to who has ever acknowledged the possibility of kotor 2 being better.
Since when was linearity a problem?it's not! but you kinda need the ability to create quality drama or generally engaging scenarios, or there's really no reason why you're going so far out of your way to structure what the player is doing. i'm not really convinced that bioware can effectively do this. all of the storytelling in mass effect has the feel of storytelling that you'd expect in non-linear games, if that comparison makes any sense. in non-linear games you can naturally expect a degree of separation from the narrative and what is physically happening to the player, if only because it's profoundly difficult to juggle quality storytelling with something open-ended and catered to the player. so much is inherently lost in game storytelling while aiming for non-linearity, since the priority is allowing the player to do what they want. i think something like fallout 3 is a good example, as the storytelling is not particularly great, and rarely ever particularly engaging, but it's definitely passable since it generally works with the way the game world works. you're playing this hollow avatar and not a real person, so it's impossible to really expect quality dramatic situations or really engaging storytelling. basically the story in non-linear games is just random people occasionally blabbering at you, almost entirely independent of the things you're physically doing in the game. that WORKS for non-linear games, but it feels like a big waste of time for games that are not particularly non-linear, like mass effect.
Not really! most of the stuff thats fixed in mass effect 2 is not pertaining to what hundley was talking about. they made the combat system way better and removed mako which was pretty awesome but its still painfully linear and everyone in the universe is still like holy fucking shit its shep! also i really dont like how they pretend you can profoundly change the story through dialogue but really its all superficial and doesnt change anything. I was really hoping in the second one they would make it so you could actually explore, nope but you can play a really boring minigame that excavates minerals from planets.ah, bummer. i was kinda hoping they'd improve on it. i guess there's really nothing out there that would make bioware do anything different from the same shit they've always done though! the sales are great and all the people out there reviewing games are mindless fucking sheep and will pretty much rate any game bioware makes 10/10.
I want to play Star Trek made by Bethesda but written by whoever is still around that wrote TNG and DS9. Bethesda writers go to hell, don't mess it up!actually i just read that bethesda actually had a plan in place to make a star trek rpg, but elected to make fallout 3 instead. i don't think they have the star trek rights anymore though, so that idea is dead. i guess that's a shame, but fallout 3 was a pretty good game.
Holy christ MGS: Peace Walker looks amazing. I cannot wait for this game.
actually i just read that bethesda actually had a plan in place to make a star trek rpg, but elected to make fallout 3 instead. i don't think they have the star trek rights anymore though, so that idea is dead. i guess that's a shame, but fallout 3 was a pretty good game.
It was a disgrace of a game compared with old Fallouts.eh, i don't really think so. i didn't like fallout 3 at first, and had pretty much decided that i WOULD HATE IT before going into it, but after a while i got into the spirit of it and ended up enjoying the game quite a bit. also, i've played the old fallout games recently and they don't really hold up as well as i had expected them to. i still think they're solid games, but not really some example of perfection or anything.
but If you look at it as if it was not apart of the fallout universe it's an ok game. well glade there keeping series still going. Never know we might get that true Fallout feel back letter in it's life... Maybe.... I hope... well here's hoping the best.fallout: new vegas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_New_Vegas)
Obsidian now hold all rights to the Fallout franchise, by the way. Bethesda can't touch it anymore
Was that an elaborate prank or something it was all over game news sites
Bethesda just asked Obsidian to make New Vegas dude. Obsidian don't own the rights to Fallout, Bethesda are still publishing New Vegas etc, and they'll probably be the ones to make Fallout 4 too, unless they're too focused on TES V.
Bethesda just asked Obsidian to make New Vegas dude. Obsidian don't own the rights to Fallout, Bethesda are still publishing New Vegas etc, and they'll probably be the ones to make Fallout 4 too, unless they're too focused on TES V.No no, I know THAT. I'm talking about something entirely different. But now I can't find any pages on it. I must be insane.
Hundley, if you like Obsidian anywhere near as much as I do (I'm also among the seemingly five of us that vastly preferred KOTOR2 to KOTOR1), maybe check out Alpha Protocol, it's their next big "action RPG" (afaik) coming out sometime at the end of the month. I haven't looked into it much, but I'm amped purely on the basis of it being an Obsidian game.yeah i was really psyched about alpha protocol when i read about what it was, and what obsidian was aiming to do with it, but i checked out some videos and it doesn't look too good. it's really strange. like the way the game's concept and execution is described and the way it has looked in various videos doesn't seem to be the same game. it kinda SOUNDS like a really interesting rpg, but LOOKS like a really generic shooter. i really HOPE it's just the way they're marketing it, and i guess it could be, since it's kinda hard to really make a trailer that shows quality rpg stuff. but i guess i'm just a little worried that it'll be very light rpg stuff wrapped around an otherwise uninteresting shooter, which is kinda what the videos indicate. it kinda has this shitty action movie feel to it, which is exactly where i had hoped a game like that would not go.
Obsidian now hold all rights to the Fallout franchise, by the way. Bethesda can't touch it anymorei hope you're right, but everything i've read indicates otherwise. interplay and bethesda currently have a lawsuit going over the fallout rights(bethesda is trying to block interplay's fallout mmo), and i don't think this would involve bethesda at all if obsidian owned the rights to the franchise.
ten bucks to anybody who can explain to me why mass effect is an example of quality game storytelling. i just finished it and still have absolutely no clue why everyone has a gigantic fucking hardon over this game. it's almost fun to mess around in, if you can look past the wide variety of design flaws, but it's just a startlingly average game.
i actually swore audibly during the scene when that fucking seizure-inducing hologram is explaining the entire story to shepard, and when confronted with the question of why the reapers are such dicks, the hologram actually said I DON'T KNOW, WHO CARES. seriously, what the fuck? is that the best you can fucking do? the whole game is full of shit like this, where they clearly didn't feel like putting a little bit of thought into the ideas present in the story, but this was really the worst. yeah bioware, don't even try justifying what the hell this game is all about, we just want to get to the alien fuck scene.
yeah i was really psyched about alpha protocol when i read about what it was, and what obsidian was aiming to do with it, but i checked out some videos and it doesn't look too good. it's really strange. like the way the game's concept and execution is described and the way it has looked in various videos doesn't seem to be the same game. it kinda SOUNDS like a really interesting rpg, but LOOKS like a really generic shooter. i really HOPE it's just the way they're marketing it, and i guess it could be, since it's kinda hard to really make a trailer that shows quality rpg stuff. but i guess i'm just a little worried that it'll be very light rpg stuff wrapped around an otherwise uninteresting shooter, which is kinda what the videos indicate. it kinda has this shitty action movie feel to it, which is exactly where i had hoped a game like that would not go.
ten bucks to anybody who can explain to me why mass effect is an example of quality game storytelling. i just finished it and still have absolutely no clue why everyone has a gigantic fucking hardon over this game. it's almost fun to mess around in, if you can look past the wide variety of design flaws, but it's just a startlingly average game.
They took out some pretty significant stuff, you're only missing out, really.Wait, I thought most of the originally censored stuff was put back in. . .
Playing prototype still. Unlocked the armor power. Its pretty awesome looking. Story seems kind of silly. Though I have to say Alex Mercer is kind of a jerk. Like he looks cool but seriously is a douche.
Just fucking eats other people in his way. Seriously, its hard not to. For instance, if you grab a civilian on accident (and you will) you can't just put them back down you either HAVE to eat them or throw them to their deaths. I usually choose to eat them cuz it gives me health and in a creepy way they might actually still be alive if I do this since Alex is more like absorbing people than eating them... they just become a part of him I suppose...
In the end though the game makes it clear in the beginning that everyone in NYC is fucked anyway so I suppose it doesn't matter.
Don't play it hundley! you have so much to live fori can feel my mind
I'm shocked at you for even considering such a thing Hundley. Or maybe you just didn't have the advantage of watching someone else play Final Fantasy XIII, because it helps immensely to avoid heartache and regretful decisions in my opinion.i made the mistake of listening to jamie when he posted HEY FINAL FANTASY 13 ISN'T SO BAD a while back and went out and actually bought it shortly before he came back and said NEVERMIND THIS IS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. now i'm inclined to give this game a chance simply because i dumped 30 bucks on it on ebay. the game has a couple days to impress me before i throw it on ebay or just trade it in at a store.
Although even then, my brain cannot help but have flashes of "Well if that chick was in MY party, I'd know exactly what I would..." and about that far into the sentence I know exactly what I am trying to avoid here.
Still haven't gotten around to beating Final Fantasy XII. I'm apparently really close with my save, but I still can't tell if it's actually worth beating or not. Maybe I can meditate over this while I play Final Fantasy VI all the way through.i actually had the same experience. i'm like a few minutes away from beating the game but i got totally disinterested and never bothered beating it.
Just finished Secret of Monkey Island SE and Portal.. two games in two days. Currently addicted to bullet hell shmups..Hahaha, we're on the same game playing schedule I see.. Just finished Portal and playing Secret of Monkey Island SE on my PS3 for the first time. I'm enjoying it a lot. I wish the old-school Adventure genre would make a comeback.
Finally got around to downloading the Misadventures of Tron Bonne, been looking for it for years actually, but could never find it. After seeing a random forum topic on it(and the other MML games), I decided to check romulation for it, and well, I think i was kinda surprised to see that the game actually exists.Could you point me to these plugins? They sound like they're worth trying.
Controls are kinda crappy now(No dual analog controls in a 3rd person game is just weird now), but the game isn't exactly hard so far so its no big deal. I really wish my pc didn't suck though, since there are some epsxe plugins that make the game look like a decent cel-shaded ps2 game, but as is they slow it down way too much.
I wish the old-school Adventure genre would make a comeback.
I was going to say I really, really liked FF13's soundtrack in comparison to the last few (12, 10, 10-2). Seems I am the only one the internet that thinks this though...actually the more i play of this game the more i am inclined to agree with you. i still feel like hamauzu was pretty uninterested in the game, considering his music is usually more engaging and lively, but the last few final fantasy soundtracks were really awful. there have actually been a few songs i've liked from this game, which is more than i can say for really any of the last few final fantasy games. i think my beef with the game is that he clearly felt pressured to MAKE GENERIC RPG SOUNDTRACK for a lot of the songs, which is something he's talented enough that he shouldn't feel obligated to do.
One of my main beefs with the game, and I don't know how to sum this up into a particularly effective point, is how useless half the areas are in the game. Like, when you're playing as Sazh/Vanille, you're exploring this very nice green lush forest-y area, and when you're playing as Lightning/Hope, you get this kind of cool blue sci-fi forest place, but it's all just a backdrop. There's never a reason for it to exist, it just sort of happens that the plot denotes you need to move through an area, and so it gives you something that's kind of cool but you never really read into the background of it apart from maybe 2 paragraphs in the datalog if you can be bothered. The world of FF13 feels so inconsequential, like it's only there to serve the plot.man, i was really hoping that this was just some isolated thing for where i was in the game and not a problem running throughout the game. but yeah, again, i completely agree with you. the scenario would be a lot more interesting if there was any real thought behind the locations. i'm (apparently) done with disc 1 and there was exactly zero legitimate use of the locations in the scenario. occasionally you'll flip a switch or ride an elevator but that's really just it. it's something of a common sense thing, but how the game internally justifies what you're physically doing in a game is really important. that you spend really the first cd just wandering around accomplishing nothing really undermines any effect the game would have otherwise had. i get that they're FUGITIVES ON THE RUN or something, but the game doesn't even do that right. i don't think the characters are intrinsically bad, but a lack of anything interesting going on in the game makes already boring characters a lot more uninteresting.
I've heard reviews saying WOWZA, THE SCALE... THIS GAME FEELS BIGGER THAN ANY FF BEFORE, but I couldn't agree less. You get a completely linear world for the most part with nothing to connect the areas (at least in FF7 you could see how Midgar related to the rest of the world, and how it transitioned to idk Cosmo Canyon or whatever), and your party is a group of people you meet in the first 2 hours with the exception of one other character. A Final Fantasy game has never felt smaller.
would you agree with me that the most annoying character in the game is fucking Vanille?
would you agree with me that the most annoying character in the game is fucking Vanille?eh, not really. i find people with bubbly personalities annoying, but i don't necessarily think that makes vanille annoying as a character. where i am in the game, there's nothing she's said that has really gotten under my skin any more than that sort of person would. she's just that kind of person, and thus far they haven't pushed that to the point where i couldn't accept it.
i'm a little afraid that i've grown into the IT'S NOT SO BAD PHASE that jaime has gone through. after what i read about this game, and after playing the first few hours, i was really convinced i would quickly despise this game. i was expecting the absolute worst, and i haven't really gotten it so far. this is a reasonably long way away from being the worst final fantasy game. i'm generally in the mood for an rpg like this at the moment, and i can tolerate this one so far.
I'm pretty sure you are at the middle stage where I was around when I made my post about liking the game because for a while it really does look like it's gonna shape up. The characters of the game being WEIRD and kind of interesting is most apparent at this point, I think, and it kind of recedes and the story just works towards wrapping itself up, and since it isn't an interesting story at all then the game just gets so fucking empty and boring. I couldn't have cared less about the outcome by the end of it, and around the Palumpolum I was kind of getting invested in the characters. Are you at Palumpolum, or in the run up to it? Because I think these 4-5 hours of the game are the best point. It's the only time when the incessant melodrama kind of drew me in, which I wrote about. For a little while I cared about the characters getting together and being happy, even if their whole quest/fugitive thing was boring.yeah i just finished palumpolum. i stayed up way too late playing all of it in one sitting. i'm with you; that section did kinda draw me into the game. it felt like the way the older final fantasy games structured story sections, where you aren't just ON YOUR WAY TO _____ but actually doing something somewhere. it's amazing how many games don't really do that anymore.
Anyone tried this with wii speak? Cant get mine to work.
I've been playing Monster Hunter Tri and its a lot better than I had imagined a Wii game ever being. Loving the underwater monsters which look great as they move, as well as a lot of the bigger monsters you come across. Online can be rather fun and helps to built your character up when it comes to soloing in off-line mode.Can't say I've grabbed a WiiSpeak yet, I don't mind just dragging out a keyboard and typing up 4-5 messages. I'm hating the character limit and the fact that you can't disable the word filter. Since when is "bastard" a bad word?
Glad I purchased the classic controller for this game though otherwise it would be just painfull to play. Anyone tried this with wii speak? Cant get mine to work.
It was the voice of Vanille that bothered me the most. Her personality and actual character design was about at the same level as all the others... not that great. Sazh was pretty disappointing.her voice and all those little sound effects "oah" "oo" "aah" "ouch" "eiefbh" JF"Flrgnjgnksjg:"gsnjgn whwagvt
What is the issue that you are having with it?
I cant hear anyone else through their own wii speak and they cant hear me through mine. I ran the setup test after installing the wii speak channel and it said it's functioning normally.
Must be something to do with having to set my audio sound on the tv to stereo which my tv just doesnt have as an option. hmm
Steadily becoming less retarded in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Gonna try and take on a Kut Ku soon, can't see it going well though. But goddamn I want that Kut Ku coin.one of my housemates (Daibin) is fucking glued to the TV... He says that he got Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) on the day of release and he has played roughly 8-10 hours a day since then. My mind boggles at how he can play a game like that for so long... but then I remember that I get pretty close with other games... its just that I typically get sick of a game and move on a lot more.
If the tests say it's functioning normally, then you should be just fine. Make sure that the person you are trying to speak to also has Wii speak and that both of you have each other in your friends list in game. Also, it only works as long as you are in the same city in game as the person you're trying to talk to.
Let me know if that helps.
but the police seized my laptop recently and I still ain't got it back
After a good deal of rough-housing out on the streets, you can go to the diner and decide whether you want pancakes or waffles, or maybe you'll splurge on the crepes.naa i heard they were a load of crêpe
Chrono Cross. Oh man, regardless of what people may say about this game, it truly has some epic moments. The scene where you save Kid from the burning orphanage, when she begs you to not leave her alone, and when she notes that your cheek is wet before you disappear.... And Lucca's letter to Kid. How she tells Kid that she's afraid that someone will go back in time to come and kill her and her friends, which turned out to come true, and how she suspects that Janus is still searching the world over for Kid.Haha, this is pretty cool since I'm replaying Chrono Cross as well. Currently at Fort Dragonia (or whatever) the first time. It was always my least favourite dungeon in the game, so I haven't been too eager to drag myself through it since I have 3D Dot Game Heroes to play through, along with a few things on my iPod.
..Yeah if you haven't played it (or at least Trigger) I guess you don't know what I'm talking about, but
I love this game a pile. Actually, I love the story more then the game itself, but whatever. It's the same thing.
I've been working my way through Demon Legacy but keep getting killed by the Terra Idol in Sharn's town.
Just an hour ago I started playing a really fun flash game called Sushi Cat. (http://armorgames.com/play/5379/sushi-cat)I t's fun and amusing. . . but I began wanting sushi. :fogetbackflip: I had to settle for some wasabi peas while I wait for steak dinner.
I suppose I'll try to give P4 another shot....... They really should've made SP-restoring items available in stores. You could buy them in P2, so what gives??The past few games have been more about rationing SP use. Although, in P3, you could just exit to the lobby of Tartarus and not have to worry about it. I do have to get around to playing P4 (and the rest of my Shin Megami Tensei backlog) again, it's just gathering dust.
breath of fire 3
and yeah i can't wait for mario galaxy 2. mario galaxy is easily one of the best games ever and i think it's also the best mario game.I agree. Mario Galaxy was stunning in every way. Lovely game.
for real everything else being made is some banal FPSs for people who drink rockstar energy drinks and have a boner for the military, a billion car racing and sports games that are identical to their previous releases, sandbox snoozefests, MMOs which are basically mental disorders that you pay a monthly fee for, and "playable" rpg animes.yep. it's been a very long time since I've been seriously interested in any game. occasionally good or at least interesting games do get released but not enough for me to want to buy a console for them. this is why I'm a lonely hobo who only plays PSX and 90s PC games.
I was talking about how awesome I thought Galaxy was and how it was just... really, really well done, when someone said they thought it was 'shit.' I almost killed them.
Modnation Racers.Awesome, good to see another GW member playing Modnation Racers. Do I have you on my PSN friends?
It's a pretty cool kart game in the same vein as the old Mario Kart games but with much more copyright infringement due to the custom-made creation. Seriously, the whole cast and race tracks from the old Mario Kart games are there. Pretty solid and cool game nonetheless.
I'm rolling in this: http://community.modnation.com/en-us/creations/240488
with this: http://community.modnation.com/en-us/creations/203605
from this: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/desktops/mcwpp_1920x1080.jpg
playin' some mario galaxy 2 and I'm considering pretty much resigning myself to only getting mario games from now on. Every game is complete shit except for mario games. The last 3 games that I played that I thoroughly enjoyed on the consoles(not counting the retro throwback megaman games) have been: Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros., and Mario Galaxy 2listen to the man goddamn!!!
that's it. Nobody except for nintendo knows how to make videogames anymore!
for real everything else being made is some banal FPSs for people who drink rockstar energy drinks and have a boner for the military, a billion car racing and sports games that are identical to their previous releases, sandbox snoozefests, MMOs which are basically mental disorders that you pay a monthly fee for, and "playable" rpg animes.
in my opinion they could have used the bee power up more often. i liked the bee powerup when i first got it but was disappointed to find that it wasn't used very often at all
Playing ModNation Racers. The customization is great, far better than it seemed to be in the beta.It's not really bad programming, it's to do with the compression methods used to deliver game content.
Loading times have become even more ridiculous, though. The game goes through a mandatory install when you boot it up, but races and such still take upwards of a minute in some cases to load???? There is something strange about that. All I can figure is that it must be poor programming.
It should really be addressed. When about a quarter of your play time is spent looking at loading screens, then something is certainly not right.
Freedom Fighters is fucking hard. Might need to go down to Rebel difficulty.
just got red dead redemptionwats wrong with dat
its gta4 with horses.
wont be playing it for long.
I've also been playing ModNation, though I can never seem to find a race lobby with anyone in it.I'm having this problem as well. It's next to impossible to get a casual race started, but XP races are a little easier to get into.
horses suck in comparison to cars.there's a saying "10000 horses can't be wrong"
horses suck in comparison to cars.
lol?
I didn't.
Pushed on anyway. The reason I was having trouble was because had had no access to precision weapons and had to deal with the enemies on the turrets from a distance then I found a sniper rifle and got past it. I noticed that the Assault rifle seems to have gotten more accurate as I played. I could be just imagining things though.
So far, RDR just feels like a rehashed wild west version of GTA4. I'm trying to persevere with it (bearing in mind I thought GTA4 was incredibly boring) but so far it just feels like the same game only with marginal technical improvements and a different setting. The combat is better and I am finding the plot a little bit more interesting, but the game in general just feels like GTA4 (WITH HORSES!).If you didn't like GTA4 and bought this, you probably made a pretty big mistake. And in regards to water, it's a way of giving areas constraints without invisible walls, basically.
I'm going to keep playing it, who knows? Maybe I'll get into it.
Also why the fuck do you die if you go into a pond/lake/etc? Could people in the early 1900s not swim?
You might do yourself a favour by skipping right onto System Shock 2.
no don't, ss1 is really good
If you didn't like GTA4 and bought this, you probably made a pretty big mistake.Untrue. I found GTA4 VERY boring and unlikable. (why on earth a gaming company would make the main character the least likable (sp?) douchebag on earth is beyond me, and CELL PHONE RING every 2 seconds ugh), but I am really, really enjoying Red Dead Redemption.
Untrue. I found GTA4 VERY boring and unlikable. (why on earth a gaming company would make the main character the least likable (sp?) douchebag on earth is beyond me, and CELL PHONE RING every 2 seconds ugh), but I am really, really enjoying Red Dead Redemption.WHAT? Nico Bellic was NOT unlikeable. nor a douchebag.
i'm just thinking now, and maybe it's cos it's been a while since i played it but i'm thinking maybe final fantasy 13 wasn't even that bad. it was overblown and you wouldn't tolerate it's style of storytelling anywhere else except this game but even though the plot was terrible, weren't the characters actually not so bad?don't get it twisted, that game was a stinker and the story/characters were horrible. Writing and stories in videogames are awful and almost insulting in the way that they have to pander to the absolute lowest common denominator in order to keep their appeal broad enough to make back their enormous production costs. What is there to like about characters who deliver shitty dialogue and are involved in a shitty plot? IMO you can't pull undigested kernels of corn off a turd and pretend its "the good part", it all stinks and came out of an asshole.
i'm just thinking now, and maybe it's cos it's been a while since i played it but i'm thinking maybe final fantasy 13 wasn't even that bad. it was overblown and you wouldn't tolerate it's style of storytelling anywhere else except this game but even though the plot was terrible, weren't the characters actually not so bad?yeah, they aren't really that bad. most games don't really put a lot of effort into giving the characters real personal conflicts to overcome, but this game actually did a fair job of that at points. it's the sort of thing where if they had actually done a lot more of that and made it a significantly larger part of the game, it may have actually been a fairly good game story. i think that's a large part of why palumpolum is such a good section. the game stops really being about the vapid CIE story that nobody gives a shit about and it becomes just about the characters and all the shit they're going through, which is kinda surprisingly sincere for a game like this.
there's a saying "10000 horses can't be wrong"
I think the problem with Final Fantasy is that Square is too scared to be serious and gritty.yeah this is pretty much how i feel on the matter. it's frustrating because they introduce slightly more complex themes into the games, but are way too obsessed with making it a FOR ALL AGES kind of game that you really can't take what they're doing seriously. it's like they want the game to appeal to ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY, but ultimately make it so the game doesn't really specifically appeal to anyone.
They think about it, but not wanting to offend anyone, they switch to bright colours and annoying "gay aeroplane" characters like Vanille.
They could have done some brilliant side stories based on the conflict between Vanille and Sahz, but that would have made Sahz into the stereotypical angry black man, which might have made him less popular... But the fact that they made him a wise cracking, afro toting, chicken loving, gun user who pretty much shrugs off his son being used and turned to crystal makes him even less likeable.
In FF7, they didn't shy away from conflict so much and it's overall setting was more dystopian.
It had bright friendly guff, but you didn't really have to pay attention to most of it and the stuff you couldn't avoid was better done (shemale Cloud :welp:)... Also, Cait Sith got crushed to death, which is nice :D
I've just started playing Final Fantasy 9 as I never got to play it properly on the PS One as I only rented it and it was a fairly battered copy which crashed during the FMV with Black Walz 3 at the airship gate.
yeah this is pretty much how i feel on the matter. it's frustrating because they introduce slightly more complex themes into the games, but are way too obsessed with making it a FOR ALL AGES kind of game that you really can't take what they're doing seriously. it's like they want the game to appeal to ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY, but ultimately make it so the game doesn't really specifically appeal to anyone.Sometimes, I wonder what happened to the old Squaresoft that effectively turned them into EA.
considering how they have an irrational amount of pull with consumers, it's pretty irritating that they don't try to be at least slightly more ambitious. they legitimately have room to be more experimental with their games, but are clearly satisfied with just making safe games that only really young audiences could get excited by. not like this is anything new, though. this is exclusively how they've operated for a long time. i guess it's just annoying when you can really pinpoint how this strategy has completely ruined otherwise interesting games.
Sometimes, I wonder what happened to the old Squaresoft that effectively turned them into EA.i've always been inclined to think that it was square phasing out sakaguchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironobu_Sakaguchi) that kinda did it. he was the president and head dude through all the years that square actually didn't suck and was making perpetually interesting games, and kinda got bumped around 2001(probably due to how much of a failure the movie was) which was really when squaresoft completely stopped making anything remotely interesting. i seriously doubt that's a coincidence.
Square used to release games like Vagrant Story and Front Mission, but now their RPG's are pretty terrible and the next Front Mission sounds more like Armoured Core.
It's like they used to kick out a little gem every so often and even those not promoted much became popular.
The problem is that rather than learn from their success, they scrap what's popular and shit out some heartless tripe like The Bouncer or Driving Emotion Type S, which just shows that 80% of their effort goes on graphics rather than gameplay.
Sometimes, I wonder what happened to the old Squaresoft that effectively turned them into EA.
Square used to release games like Vagrant Story and Front Mission, but now their RPG's are pretty terrible and the next Front Mission sounds more like Armoured Core.
It's like they used to kick out a little gem every so often and even those not promoted much became popular.
The problem is that rather than learn from their success, they scrap what's popular and shit out some heartless tripe like The Bouncer or Driving Emotion Type S, which just shows that 80% of their effort goes on graphics rather than gameplay.
EA on the other hand, seems to be moving away from releasing truly awful drivel, though admittedly, this is mainly down to them buying new studios such as DICE, Criterion and Bioware to get their hands on titles like Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Battlefield.
I've always wondered whether rpgs like that would have benefitted from cutting out half their characters and having more focus. It's hard enough telling a strong story in a game with a few characters (both through the quality of writing, and through more formal uses of GAMES themselves), that when you have to put together a game with a half dozen dudes AND have to put together high definition art assets AND compose music and deal with competent voice acting AND build an actual, playable, and interesting game that ties everything together competently and neatly is virtually impossible.
nah. i don't think it is that these companies are overstretching their resources, i think that it is just they they choose to use the vast resources they've got to make some of the worst ideas for games. hundley said something i thought was pretty true - alot of the time these games are set up to be so fun, and really interesting, but a few terrible choices make the games terrible.
like final fantasy 13, the characters are all the most cynical stereotypes, and you play it hating it for a while then you realise that the characters actually develop as you go through the game. i remember when i realised that hope was actually being explored beyond being an angsty teen and pretty boy for serial moms i was really surprised, same with snow. and the two of them have this actually interesting conflict going on between them for the first half of the game. that's just one example of the interesting characters, but the thing i want to point out is how it totally dies off in the game. by the end of the game, there are no characters. you just have 6 battle figurines who throw out awful stock lines until you get to the ending, which i skipped because i was so sick of the game by that point i didn't even care how it ended. they had this little roster of characters who I assumed were going to be awful, then they managed to convince me they weren't and i cared about them for a while. then they stopped doing all that interesting stuff and started talking about saving coccoon and l'cie and fal'cie and who cares incessantly even though they had me friggin reeled in! like i was playing the game and i didn't expect to but i actually liked sazh and vanille together, and vanille and fang and snow and lightning and alot of the other dynamics that were going on and i was excited to see the whole thing go even further and then it just didn't and some 60 year old asshole kept showing up to talk about the end of the world and i switched off.
Just ignore the FMVs. the plot is worthless in ff9 anyways.you have terrible taste
How does Galaxy 2 compare to the first one?More of the same, from what I can tell. That's hardly a bad thing though.
you have terrible taste
I'd like to to say that I played FF6 about a year ago and I don't understand what all the fuss is about that game. Infact I never really enjoy playing any of the FF games except maybe tactics. I only remember enjoying watching my older brother play FF7 (but not really understanding what was going on).
I am really enjoying RDR. Wasn't the biggest fan of GTA4 but I like this a lot more. I think the comparison is a bit silly really as they are two different genres. When I first played it I found it to be closer to Fallout 3 than anything else down to the atmosphere and scenery. The acting is definitely the best in a game so far. Uncharted 2 comes close in terms of acting but this game just has so many characters. The dialogue is a lot longer and better developed than in GTA but I guess they have made a real effort to make it a wild western life simulator as well. There are some special things that you can do like ride a mine cart whilst shooting mothers in the face that you don't really get in the drive-here-shoot-this nature of the other game.
One of the things that impressed me is that the PS3 version isn't that bad at all, graphically. The PS3 version of GTA4 was rendered in 480p and upscaled to the monitor which was pretty dreadful. Apparently Episodes from Liberty City has the same treatment as RDR and runs closer to 720p so I might get that.
Like a bunch of other dudes it seems, I'm playing RDR. There are two things that really strikes me when I play this game. The first is how much fun I am having not actually playing the missions. A third of my time spent with this game must have been playing cards. Sometimes, when going from mission to mission, I'll bump into a stranger, start its quest, and bump into more stuff while doing it; animals to hunt, quick little missions like stopping a horse theft, find a bounty, etc... This game really is at its best when it lets you be that wandering man of the West, doing what he wants and help people on the way, if the pay is good.
The second aspect of this game that really caught me is the sense of space. I'll probably write a lot more about this (and post it here afterwards) but every aspect that makes the Western genre in cinema is ten times more powerful and expended in the videogame medium. Landscape, gun fights, gritty hero, moral conflicts, a sense of vastness and loss. I'll come back to this latter on.
floor 244 of tartarus in persona 3 i can taste the end O.o
Last boss now!!! massive 14 forms i'm gonna do the thunder reign strategy then kill the death arcana wish me luck peoples.
and also why do people say this game took them 100 hours or more im at the last boss and im just under 60 i heard the last boss was long but not 40 hours long :o.
persona 3 had a amazing ending il be playing persona 3 portable july 6.A gimped version of the game you just beat
On a side note I've been trying to find this hilarious fighting game called Super Cosplay Wars Ultra, but none of the downloads on the website seem to work and there's no torrents for it. As far as I know it's freeware but there doesn't seem to be any working mirrors of it.
Playing through Half-Life 2 with this mod on: www.cinematicmod.com (http://www.cinematicmod.com)
It looks fucking beautiful.
Playing through Half-Life 2 with this mod on: www.cinematicmod.com (http://www.cinematicmod.com)
It looks fucking beautiful.
IT WON'T LOAD AND I WANT TO PLAY ITTTT :(
I think a Metal Gear remake could be on the horizon. After the events of Peace Walker, it's pretty much set up the events of MG. I hope I'm right.
I have been playing vampire masquerade bloodlines lately. God it's annoying sometimes.
He's confusing Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, a 2000 RPG by Nihilistic Software, with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, a 2004 Action RPG by Troika Games.
Redemption seemed pretty terrible from the little I've been exposed too
Masquerade is fucking amazing
hey guys who here has played blood omen: legacy of kain and thinks it's worth $5 on psn? I've been wanting a new game to play lately but don't feel like spending $50 bucks and that game looked kinda cool so what's the deal. I suppose I could just download it but I prefer to play stuff on my tv, does that make me a consumerist whore???I like it a lot.
Half Life 2: Episode 2 was incredible.Hell yes it was. I almost envy you that you just got to experience it for the first time recently.
Goddamn incredible.
I've been slowly working my way through Dragon Age Origins. Honestly though, my feels towards this game are that its more of a chore than anything else. I am not enjoying it very much! Perhaps it is because I am not a huge fan of this genre in the first place, but most of the time when I am playing it, I just feel like I don't really care about anything that is happening in it. Also lets be honest, the battle system really sucks in this game too.
I agree with the other me and will go farther to say that Dragon Age was a piece of shit.thanks other me
fuck valve if they won't announce new Half-Life at E3. Everything is pointing that they will so they better.
Yes, it would be great if he was lying. I want HL3 or Ep3 or what ever they are going to call it.
Anyways, How'd you react to the ending of Ep2? (remember spoiler tags... :P)
If it's Episode 3 I will actually consider killing Gabe Newell. The reason they started doing "Episodes" was to get the games out faster, and not take six years to release it.There won't be a HL3 until after Episode 3. Episode 3 has been in development for ages.
But, take a look at how long it has taken and we don't have all three episodes. SIX YEARS, oh shit. Three years since Episode 2. That's ridiculous.
I would be more inclined not to kill Newell, if it was Half-Life 3 they were announcing. A proper full length game with upgrades to Source engine, etcetera. That would be nice.
There won't be a HL3 until after Episode 3. Episode 3 has been in development for ages.
I'm playing Deus Ex today. Don't have much to say about it right now except that this is my game.As soon as I beat SS2 I'm playing that. I hear they are sort of similar.
I just completed Red Dead Redemption. I need a hug.Dude, I got completely bored of that game way too quickly. Played multiplayer only for a while, had some damn good times riding with the buddies taking down over possies, taking forts and ..picking flowers and then it got stale. Single Player seems more of a chore than anything, I didn't play too much of it and ended up failing missions because say, during the opening race against Bonnie she decided to jump to her death off a cliff as I overtook her, and then later failed a mission for gently nudging over a rancher with my horse. The multiplayer was better. It just needs more variety.
Seriously, did that actually just happen. Oof.
lol can i ask why the school has the games in the first place do you have some sort of game room?
lol can i ask why the school has the games in the first place do you have some sort of game room?Its Called Education? :fogetshrug:
Im pretty sure the third level of dead eye lets you mark the x's yourself not positive about this though. Also yeah it was kind of annoying trying to complete missions and then running over a dog with your horse and getting a bounty on your head. Still a pretty decent game though.
Your perception of "ages" is very skewed
Depends on whether or not he believes 3 years to be a great length of time or not.he said when it was a free game. that was (less than?) a month ago.
he said when it was a free game. that was (less than?) a month ago.
fired up Xbox live gears 2 on live sucks thick dick i hate gears online and not one person plays lost planet online so i hadda play halo 3 which was awesome online though im still only a sargeant or however its spelled.
Playing Oblivion. Going to make myself finish the main quest and the main quest of the DLCs.
not really a P.C gamer i had a shitty P.C til recently now i can actually play the good games Pig Syle.the best pc games are all capable of running on terrible computers, mostly
hobo,mine had fkn 2D graphics is System Shock 2 2D?? I didnt think so. :fogethuh:You were running DOS and/or Windows 3.1?
Man i cant choose between Bayonetta or BlazBlue to buy can anyone tell me which is better?system shock 2
system shock 2
Blatantly replaying Majora's Mask. I've never actually completed it so I figured I'd start a new game... 10 years after it was released? But I've gone back into nostalgic mode with the announcement of Donkey Kong Country Returns. As soon as the drums started in that trailer I think my ears orgasmed.
my brother forced the game THE SABOTEUR down my throat and i am playing it
pretty fun game actually. kinda dumb and doesn't really do enough with the setting, but it's fun.
it's a fairly ridiculous game actually. they make a big deal about storylines in the game and the nazi lockdown and all that shit, but what the game really amounts to is just spending hours upon hours ANNOYING NAZIS. all you do in the game is break nazi shit and throw nazis off of buildings. it's not even as much about fighting the nazis as it is just being an enormous dick to them. that's fine, and it's still fun, it just makes the whole experience of playing the game probably a little more comical than they had intended it to be.
actually that seemed to be the common thread going through all of pandemic's games, even games like mercenaries and battlefront. it isn't really about some greater goal or plot-oriented gameplay device as much as it is identifying cute little shit the enemy was making and then sneaking in behind them and breaking it(usually blowing them up in the process).
RIP pandemic studios, the world's best developer of JERK SIMULATORS
i liked the arena matches more than the pseudo fps gamemode, i thought that was pretty boring in the end. dk64 was a great game but yeah no match for dkc 1-3. i seriously am considering buying wii for dkc returns, mario galaxy 2, new zelda and metroid. big surprise all nintendo games but at least there's a half good reason to get a wii now.
Grow some balls.
Me being very used to extremely difficult FPS combat it did not faze me. But not everyone plays FPS's more then any other genre.
No SS2 so i got the closest thing (Bioshock) and walked past some other game store and Perfect dark zero both for 23 bucksPerfect Dark Zero is disgusting
Bioshock is fucking amazing!!!..
Nah, don't listen to that kiwi fruit. Deus Ex all the way. Definitely DX.
Anyone tried this mod?It is very nice
http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision/downloads/deus-ex-new-vision-public-beta
It basically gives DX a new set of textures and renderer. I might give it a try ;D
Here's a question for you, is Kayne and Lynch worth £3.50?
Downloaded DOOM from the xbox live arcade at first i was thinking why the fuck did i buy this then i played it,it was AWESOME so im playing that now :)is it awesome? play it more and let me know, i've been thinking about picking that up for a while.
The thing I don't like about the MP3 screens:
1) He's a baldy
2) It's set in some favela (Fuck MW2)
3) All currently available screenshots don't look the least bit noir.
Anyone tried this mod?How does one install it? just dump everything into the maps folder? (as well as making a backup of course) In which case, are they supposed to replace the old files? because they have a different file extension then the ones in the zip.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision/downloads/deus-ex-new-vision-public-beta
It basically gives DX a new set of textures and renderer. I might give it a try ;D
is it awesome? play it more and let me know, i've been thinking about picking that up for a while.
How does one install it? just dump everything into the maps folder? (as well as making a backup of course) In which case, are they supposed to replace the old files? because they have a different file extension then the ones in the zip.
How does one install it? just dump everything into the maps folder? (as well as making a backup of course) In which case, are they supposed to replace the old files? because they have a different file extension then the ones in the zip.
Do you know any worthy Fo3 mods?
Anyone tried this mod?
http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision/downloads/deus-ex-new-vision-public-beta
It basically gives DX a new set of textures and renderer. I might give it a try ;D
The Witcher in 4 words: Slash. Hack. Shag woman.
APB
Just started playing APB. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's an MMO that just came out today. It's by the guy responsible for Grand Theft Auto (the GUY, not the COMPANY) and is essentially just a gigantic game of cops and robbers.APB and The Old Republic are the only MMO's that have interested me out of every MMO I've seen. At the very same time I zero interest in paying to continue to play.
I've only played for an hour so far and just did tutorial stuff, no actual PvP. Seems promising, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow before I can form a decent opinion of the game.
I bought GTA4 for PC, I already own it on PS3 but I thought since it is rendered in 1x1px on the PS3 I would give it a go on my computer.
My computer is not very good at playing GTA4.
Oh well.
*sob*
I played APB for like 2-3 hours the other night. APB blows, very dissapointing! Missions were all pretty samey, everyone who played was bad or something. It was funny listening to manchildren scream at me when I crash into them as I'm SUPPOSED to be trying to help them escape :-) I guess that's a redeeming factor: Manchildren will scream at you.I logged onto APB this morning to try and form an opinion of the game a bit better. I didn't get to do much since I was still fairly tired, but I was a little surprised at how shitty the community already seems to be. I was watching my chat window and people were being really malicious with one another, throwing racist insults and just being huge dicks.
I assume this is true for every online game with voicechat, though.
I bought it too.
My computer is not good at playing it either :(
It may be time for an upgrade. My dad has a 5770 and I am really impressed with the power for the price. The only thing is the upgrade would be worthless without new CPU, motherboard and DDR3 RAM.
So that's £300 minimum, not really worth it when I can just *get by* playing games optimised for my console.
I'll see if I run into some cash this summer.
I logged onto APB this morning to try and form an opinion of the game a bit better. I didn't get to do much since I was still fairly tired, but I was a little surprised at how shitty the community already seems to be. I was watching my chat window and people were being really malicious with one another, throwing racist insults and just being huge dicks.
So the community is pretty iffy so far. I only took part in one mission before I was able to really familiarize myself with the game and had my ass handed to me. I've played for about an hour and a half in total and it just doesn't feel like enough for me yet at all to form any kind of opinion. I know that it's just all large scale PvP "cops versus robbers" but it's hard for me to really come to any conclusions.
The fact that the game doesn't really even help to teach you ANYTHING is probably keeping me from really sinking my teeth into the game. It just drops you into the city, makes you do some extremely irrelevant and pointless PvE quests that serve almost no purpose and don't help you in the long run, and then after completing them you get to do the PvP missions.
Like I said, I did one so far and the criminals humiliated me pretty badly. I definitely need more time with this one.
So far I do like the game. It's not amazing and isn't the best MMO available, but it's certainly at least decent. My only gripe is that it's not very user friendly, and there is essentially zero hand holding when you first begin, meaning you're on your own to figure everything out.
there is a tutorial :\Yeah, I've done a few missions now. It's not fun at all when you're solo, but group missions are a blast! Love driving around with other guys, hanging out the windows watching for criminals, guarding them while they defuse something, etc.
the the pve missions are just pve until an opposing player gets a "dispatch" request, and if they accept your mission becomes pvp instantly
I'm about 8 hours played now on it and im 60 rating or something, its pretty awesome, I've gotten five stars a few times and its fun when everyone in the city becomes an enemy!
I play on world 2 if anyone else does my name is Sobanoodle
GTA4 is pretty horribly ported in general, it's not a good judge of system quality.
Does APB have a trial? It does seem very appealing.
Yeah, I've done a few missions now. It's not fun at all when you're solo, but group missions are a blast! Love driving around with other guys, hanging out the windows watching for criminals, guarding them while they defuse something, etc.
yeah i pretty much only play with my friend, me and him bought it at launch and play grouped all the time
blazblue is such a shitty knock off of the guilty gear series. some of the overpowered characters really piss me off. I tried giving it a chance a few times but now I dont even bother. Now when I think about playing it I just load up guilty gear x2 #reload, and it works!I do prefer the GG chars but hey BB has online play that never lags which is just awesome, now if only they make a new guilty gear that has lagless online il be on its back like a butcrack :P
who needs apb when you have crimecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimecraft) :naughty: :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:
I downloaded The World Ends with You and played it and once I heard I was in a game. I instantly thought gantz. guess I was right since there dead.
Not a bad game that's for sure.
.... spoilers.
Double post, but who really even gives a shit these days?
To those who expressed interest in APB but haven't been able to decide whether or not they want to lay down $50 to play, I hope this helps: http://rev-depot.com/2010/07/02/apb-review/
I've tried looking into this but I just dont understand how the pricing system works, you pay for the game and get unlimited access to the main district but you only get 50 hours in the action district? What does this mean.. Can someone explain the whole pricing system for me cause I havnt a clue!
The most excellent subscription plan is no subscription plan
Dragon Age is pretty cool, quite boring at times, dialouge needs skipping alot.Dragon Age was fantastic. I still wish that it was a little more open though. The game is essentially just a straight path.
I bought Saints Row 2 during the Steam sale yesterday, and fuck it is such an awful console port. The controls are terrible, I'm considering buying a gamepad just for that game because the controls are so bad.
uhh wtf is APB?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APB_%282010_video_game%29 You could have just Googled it. Kind of surprised you don't know about it.
Good old Rezzy 5 those chainsaw guys were a bitch to kill, though when you have your grenade launcher the game is too easy (or infinite ammo rocket launcher).
^ I did get around to what it could mean, but thanks for the input. Ass :rolleyes:.
Playing nothing at the moment.
fuck ya illusion of gaiawhy?
grandia 2 sucks nway.
why?i LOVED it back in the day!! i have beaten it like 10 times. illusion of gaia fucking rocks. one of the best action rpg's!! i just love its setting and how it's loosely based on real history and mythology (it has a lot of cool ideas and locations like inca stuff, the great wall of china, tower of babel etc.) and it's just friggin awesome. i need to replay it.
Controls are bugged, had to change them, I have played and watched the first one, it's alot better I hear.grandia is childish and silly but it's awesome. it's one of the best jrpg's for sure. it's so... pure. grandia 2 is just a shitty copy of it with an awful storyline and characters.
i LOVED it back in the day!! i have beaten it like 10 times. illusion of gaia fucking rocks. one of the best action rpg's!! i just love its setting and how it's loosely based on real history and mythology (it has a lot of cool ideas and locations like inca stuff, the great wall of china, tower of babel etc.) and it's just friggin awesome. i need to replay it.
grandia is childish and silly but it's awesome. it's one of the best jrpg's for sure. it's so... pure. grandia 2 is just a shitty copy of it with an awful storyline and characters.
pure, that's a nice way of putting it. to me, grandia 1 is all just about ADVENTURE, and i don't think any game since has ever replicated that feeling of adventuring and exploring (except maybe skies of arcadia, but it's a whole different vibe). god damn it i love grandia.
pure, that's a nice way of putting it. to me, grandia 1 is all just about ADVENTURE, and i don't think any game since has ever replicated that feeling of adventuring and exploring (except maybe skies of arcadia, but it's a whole different vibe). god damn it i love grandia.yes!! this is exactly how i feel! grandia is friggin awesome and im a big baby for liking it but i dont care.
What about the third one, any good?better than second but nowhere as good as the first one. grandia 3 has hands down one of the best battle systems ever and it also has some nice locations and it's got a bit of that adventure feel back but the dialogue and characters are mostly so awful that you can't take the game seriously on any level and you'll probably feel embarrassed for playing it even if no one is there to see it. but i suppose i'd say grandia 3 is worth playing, i enjoyed it.
Beat borderlands with my brother finally. We were Gunna go straight to the General Knoxx DLC from the end but he started new game plus and I don't know if that means that we can still go directly to General Knoxx. :/
Picked up the US version of Dragon Quest IX a couple days ago... I am absolutely enthralled and addicted to this game.
all ps3 owners should play uncharted 2 with meI will do this when I get Uncharted 2
thats all
welp, after I started Jade Empire and played it for a few hours, I discovered Pyschonauts had finished downloading. -_-
I'm sticking with Jade Empire. So far its pretty fun.
Man I couldn't play Jade Empire for more than a few hours. It really annoyed me how the characters moved during dialog sequences. Like, they'd randomly wave their arms around and rock back and forth. It's disgusting. Whoever was responsible for that should have realized that graphics are advanced enough that we can see a character's mouth moving and we don't need any other indication that they are talking.Yeah it is kind of odd... but not really something that bothers me enough to keep me from playing. Also, KOTOR has the exact same thing.
I just finished braid. it was ok, but dissatisfying. I'm at a point where I'm not really sure if that's my problem or the game's. the game has plenty of stuff wrong with it but I feel like I should have been able to enjoy it anyway. it never got me engrossed and I think that might be because I've got a bad computer setup right now. awhile ago I played machinarium on a laptop with a dim, low-contrast screen and I'm pretty sure that game was ruined too. this time I've got a tiny old monitor and a chair that's too low for a desk that's two feet widewell, what did you think of the ending of Braid?
I just finished braid. it was ok, but dissatisfying. I'm at a point where I'm not really sure if that's my problem or the game's. the game has plenty of stuff wrong with it but I feel like I should have been able to enjoy it anyway. it never got me engrossed and I think that might be because I've got a bad computer setup right now. awhile ago I played machinarium on a laptop with a dim, low-contrast screen and I'm pretty sure that game was ruined too. this time I've got a tiny old monitor and a chair that's too low for a desk that's two feet widei've only played the demo for braid, but i kinda felt like it would be the sort of game that would be a lot easier to really dig into if there hadn't been such an absurd amount of hype surrounding it. i kinda went into it thinking SO THIS IS THE GAME EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HUH and i ended up finishing the demo, being pretty underwhelmed, and not really thinking about it again. i think i might feel differently if i blindly stumbled onto this game and went into it with no expectations.
i got borderlands, this game is my 1st RPS ever and i absolutely love it its way to addictive if someone got some marijuana and rolled it into a game this would be the result, im upto the part where you leave fyrestone and i completed every last mission in fyrestone this game is just awesome a must buy for any FPS fan 2K games have done it again 1st bioshock now this they just keep getting better :).Amen to this, Borderlands is the shit. I really need to go back and play it again someday.
uhh wtf is APB?http://rev-depot.com/2010/07/02/apb-review/
Glad it gave me the epilogue to all the individual characters.
Beat Kane and Lynch... already. Only 4-5 hours of gameplay there. Oh well, hopefully its sequel will be better made and be longer.Is this 4-5 hours of gameplay worth £8? I saw it in the shop and was thinking of buying it.
Is this 4-5 hours of gameplay worth £8? I saw it in the shop and was thinking of buying it.IDK. It'd gameplay at its core isn't terrible (at least on the PC). But there are a few/bunch of little flaws with it. and the game had a few graphical glitches (only like 2 gave my any trouble, and it might just be my rig or OS)
Been progressing on SOLDIER at the moment.S.O.L.D.I.E.R... the ribrs of univrse..
Yeah it is in the Eidos pack (as are all of of the Hitman games except the third title in the series) but I'm going to play the first 3 before I start that game.TBH alert fuckups and generally archaic gameplay may make you hate the older ones. If this does happen, don't lose hope. Play Blood Money, it is amazing (I think the others are too, but the concensus from others isn't so bright)
Also since I've started up Far Cry already I'm going to beat it first.
S.O.L.D.I.E.R... the ribrs of univrse..
whos getting starcraft II
Here is a better question. Who is not getting starcraft II?me
Here is a better question. Who is not getting starcraft II?
Here is a better question. Who is not getting starcraft II?me
um I am because in the long run it's a blizzard rts (I've always enjoyed them), I liked what I saw in the beta, the mapmaking tools are mad powerful and the 3 different campaign things doesn't bother me as much cause I realized Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Fable, and pretty much every Bioware RPG got away with doing the same thing so why should I be mad at Blizzard specifically?I don't know anything about this starcraft campaign but none of the bioware games I played broke the campaign into separate chunks for no good reason. the neverwinter nights expansion packs were all standalone campaigns with expansion content. baldur's gate II is pretty much a whole new game and it functions as a standalone campaign. you can complete the Baldur's Gate campaign in its entirety without being obligated to import that character into BGII and start a whole new story
I think it's because it's an entirely worse game than the original after 12 years apart from graphics. Competitive players had their massively used lan play taken away and the intense micromanagement starcraft is famous for toned down and people who just want to play through the campaign have to buy 3 separate ones to cover the costs of cinematics and activision board of directors' gigolo blowjobs.
pretty sure it's more of a backlash against the 'this is THE game to play' garbage Blizzard is banking off of than 'nonconformist hate'. there really isn't any reason to think that anyone should be interested in this game other than well its supposed to be a big deal
I don't know anything about this starcraft campaign but none of the bioware games I played broke the campaign into separate chunks for no good reason. the neverwinter nights expansion packs were all standalone campaigns with expansion content. baldur's gate II is pretty much a whole new game and it functions as a standalone campaign. you can complete the Baldur's Gate campaign in its entirety without being obligated to import that character into BGII and start a whole new storywell when I played Jade Empire and Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins and watched my friends play the two KOTORs they all felt like the same game in different settings to me. That's what I meant. Also they did have a good reason for splitting up the campaign into chunks: They can focus more on each story and really push the narrative in an RTS game. so instead of 3 10 mission campaigns, we get 3 30 mission campaigns, fully detailing the epic or whatever storyline of Starcraft 2
How about "I grew up playing SC1 with my friends in our school's computer lab and I'm excited about the sequel"????? As shitty as Phantom Menace was, you can't fucking tell me you were surprised that people were excited about a new Star Wars. This was an iconic game when I was 12, of course I'm excited to try the sequel.I was thinking of editing my post to capitalize SHOULD because it's ambiguous but I decided against it. so they're not interested and there's really no reason to think they should be besides well it's supposed to be a big deal
I don't understand all the noncomformist hate for Starcraft? It's a great game, and while I'm a little disappointed that the sequel doesn't really try anything new (despite having 12 years to innovate), I can't say I'm NOT going to play it. Maybe it's not as great as Total Annihilation but they are still great RTS games?
I mean I get it if you don't like RTS games, and I get it if you're disappointed with it, but I'm a little surprised by all the NYUH UH NOT EVEN GONNA PLAY IT responses.
Currently installing SCII. I don't plan on playing online because honestly I suck at RTSes. I plan on just playing the single player campaign at a leisurely pace.you should at least try playing some custom games because the map editor is powerful enough to make basically any genre of game out there.
you should at least try playing some custom games because the map editor is powerful enough to make basically any genre of game out there.
this is so fucking good holy shitWrong topic? :huh:
Wrong topic? :huh:definitely the right topic! you/we are all gamers and this is GAMING WORLD so i assume people people want to see gamers having a good time on a legendary tune.
ramci did you know that we have [youtube] tag you don't need to use dohtml:fogetgasp: WWWWWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!
:fogetgasp: WWWWWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!Don't feel bad, I only found out about it like a month ago too.
While the SC2 campaign wasn't anything spectacular and the plot was filled with cliches I thought it was a pretty decent introduction to the SC2 storyline. Definitely glad they decided to split the story into 3 parts because while some of the missions weren't crucial to the story I think the overall length of the campaign added to the epicness of it all, plus there's so many upgrades between missions you won't even get them all before the final act. And not to spoil to much but I was glad you were able to play as toss for a bit even though it was short lived. I thought the ending was pretty great but a little irritated that they give you a point of no return but it only ends up being 2-3 missions and then the game ends.
I'm interested to see in what happens in heart of the swarm.
That revenge of the titans game looks awesome and i want it!!!
alien swarm didn't seem very interesting to me but I downloaded it. I might play the dagger of amon-ra instead if I can get itYeah I wasn't that interested either but then I tried co-op with my little brother and some friends online and it was pretty fun. I recommend you play it co-op.
warrped, if Punkbuster kicks you for "disallowed driver" or something- Disable the steam ingame overlay. It's known to conflict, as is any overlay program.Yeah I was thinking FRAPS or steam was the problem. I'll try this next time I play WaW. As for now. gunna go to sleep.
I need A Game again gang. same conditions apply: only have a PC and $0Torrents are your friends...
If you fail your finals due to TLAD that's like the worst ever gaming excuse for a failure in the history of time. For me it's not even worth the bluray it's printed on.lol so its the worst game ever made?
me and my brother played through the halo 3 campaign like a week ago. hahaha, what an awful, awful campaign. i do not understand the praise of this game. it was pretty funny, i guess.
I enjoyed GTA4 very much. I just have a dislike for people with motorbikes who wear leather.
The praise is for the online play cause it rocks its the only online play where you can save replays and screenshots and stuff onto your file share and other crap like that and also the campaign was sucky but the last level was awesome to me ive replayed the last level like 15 times lol.The multiplayer is awful too though.
The praise is for the online play cause it rocks its the only online play where you can save replays and screenshots and stuff onto your file share and other crap like that and also the campaign was sucky but the last level was awesome to me ive replayed the last level like 15 times lol.really? the last level was "EPIC LULZ". It was supposed to be very serious and very epic, but it wasn't either of those. It was silly, dumb, and really not a lot of fun. It was like a crappy Exitebike 64 level.
I enjoyed GTA4 very much. I just have a dislike for people with motorbikes who wear leather.oh, I can understand that. Game is actually pretty fun though, as in it adds some decent gameplay to the basic GTA4 stuff. Though I suppose you have a pretty intense dislike of these types of people.
really? the last level was "EPIC LULZ". It was supposed to be very serious and very epic, but it wasn't either of those. It was silly, dumb, and really not a lot of fun. It was like a crappy Exitebike 64 level.
Parker, out of curiosity, did you like any of the Halo games?actually, this is a good point. i don't really. i loved playing halo with my friends at parties and stuff, that was always a good time. played a lot of halo 2 with friends, too, which was fun. but i think it was just playing a game in the company of friends that was fun, not the game itself. we could have been playing any game, really.
actually, this is a good point. i don't really. i loved playing halo with my friends at parties and stuff, that was always a good time. played a lot of halo 2 with friends, too, which was fun. but i think it was just playing a game in the company of friends that was fun, not the game itself. we could have been playing any game, really.
pokemon heartgold 8-)Cao Cao the Charmander and Liu Bei the Pikachu does sound pretty good except I bet if I paid a little more attention I could match names to pokemon like OH THIS MAN HAD A FIERY (FIREY?) PERSONALITY AND WAS LOYAL LIKE A DOG HE WILL BE MY GROWLITHE
that is addictive, i also take the pokewalker everywhere like to work and crap, and there is nothing geekier than having a team named after japanese translations of three-kingdoms people.
I reinstalled TF2 after a long, long hiatus. I'm picking it up alright now. LETS PLAY.Game stopped being good when they added the achievement weapons or random drops as they are now i think lmao
Girlfriend bought me Call of Pripyat in that Weekend Steam Sale today, so I played about half an hour of that.In comparison to the first STALKER? or just games in general? does it add a lot to it? IDK if I should get it. :/ I've spent my game money already. Should I start on next months to buy this? (I spend maybe 20 bucks AT MOST a month. Typically I don't spend any at all as I have a crap ton of games I already own that I feel I wont wont get too whatever game I decided to buy by the time it's brought down in price anyway)
It's really good.
In comparison to the first STALKER? or just games in general?
pokemon heartgold 8-)Don't have soulsilver or heartgold yet. When the pokewalker levels up, does it level up like a rare candy would, with stat gimps?
that is addictive, i also take the pokewalker everywhere like to work and crap, and there is nothing geekier than having a team named after japanese translations of three-kingdoms people.
I'm playing with my dick also Plants vs Zombies GOTY Edition every now and then. or in between :fogetlaugh: :fogetshh:You dirty necrophile.
Don't have soulsilver or heartgold yet. When the pokewalker levels up, does it level up like a rare candy would, with stat gimps?Rare candies don't actually gimp you stats unless you never use that pokemon to fight another pokemon ever(which gives EVs, basically a 'secret' stat that effects how your pokemons stat grow) and just level them purely with candies, the pokewalker works the same way, plus your pokemon won't learn moves. This is actually a good thing if you want to train your pokemon with specific EVs and still use the pokewalker to level up. Also I've heard you can wear your pokewalker while driving and it will gain some distance, no need to put it on your hubcap.
A friend of mine knows someone in the marines who always carries his pokewalker with him when he's on his training runs. I still cannot reconcile the idea of marines and pokemon at the same time.
Still, it makes me think. If you were to tape your pokewalker to your car's hubcaps...
EDUT: Also, gonna try to install Brawl: Minus. Snake is wtfhax.
I might buy Fallout 3(plus expansions, not including vegas) this week or next week, doesn't cost that much $50.00.
Dead Rising. I am liking everything about the game except for the progression system. The fact that you have to go out of your way to save the game combined with the fact that it punishes you by completely restarting from the beginning if you die makes for a pretty horrible experience. If the game would at least autosave after each boss or completed task/mission then it would be somewhat more tolerable.
Anyway it is still a good game aside from that, and I'll see if I have the motivation required to finish it. So far I haven't even been able to finish the first mission. :-(
Vegas isn't an expansion. It's an entirely new game.
It's all of the great parts from Shadow of Chernobyl + The good parts from Clear Sky. It's easily the best of the three. You aren't dropped into the story completely blind either, like you are in the other two.Did I miss something when I played, then? I started on a hill next to two random STALKERS who told me about the boat town, and just kind of walked over there myself. It easily felt the most dumped-into-the-game beginning of all of them. I've searched all the nearby helicopters and I still don't really get what I'm doing apart from getting rich by hunting anomalies.
Did I miss something when I played, then? I started on a hill next to two random STALKERS who told me about the boat town, and just kind of walked over there myself. It easily felt the most dumped-into-the-game beginning of all of them. I've searched all the nearby helicopters and I still don't really get what I'm doing apart from getting rich by hunting anomalies.
i really don't understand what everybody loves about this game
i really don't see how it can even compare to say COD or halo
finally bought a wii from my friend for cheap. Now I'm playing Super Smash Bros Brawl. Went to buy another game and couldn't find anything worth the over-priced $50 value...If you haven't played Mario Galaxy, the first one, do that immediately. It's really, really amazing. Also Mario Kart Wii is my favorite Mario Kart, so pick that up if you like the series. Resident Evil 4 is pretty great for the Wii, too (and should be cheap).
What games are good on wii? I mean... "$50 on wii instead of PS3" good.
Anyone got a Fallout 3 savegame just before you leave Vault 101? I tried googling one and failed and I am so not going through that bs intro again.
finally bought a wii from my friend for cheap. Now I'm playing Super Smash Bros Brawl. Went to buy another game and couldn't find anything worth the over-priced $50 value...
What games are good on wii? I mean... "$50 on wii instead of PS3" good.
Anyone got a Fallout 3 savegame just before you leave Vault 101? I tried googling one and failed and I am so not going through that bs intro again.if you skip through the dialogue and just sprint to your destinations the intro goes by really fast
Anyone got a Fallout 3 savegame just before you leave Vault 101? I tried googling one and failed and I am so not going through that bs intro again.There are mods to skip the entire intro.
Minecraft. My litle brother pestered me to try it. Now I'm addicted to survival mode.
Though recently it fricken crashed and I lost 3 hours of work on a god damned bridge.
Minecraft. My litle brother pestered me to try it. Now I'm addicted to survival mode.
Worms Reloadedwish i had money for this.
Are you playing Alpha, as in the paid version of survival mode? Because if so I'm surprised it's taken you this long to play it.Yeah I'm playing alpha... its the only game mode I've tried. I haven't played creative mode.I'm using my brothers sign in.
man all you gotta do is hit escape..........Yeah I know that now. Didn't realize that then. I literally had just started the game. It was my first session. I had sat down and just never pressed escape. Building this bridge and a connecting road.
Anyone got a Fallout 3 savegame just before you leave Vault 101? I tried googling one and failed and I am so not going through that bs intro again.
Apparently the new worms game is pretty terrible and they cut out a lot of stuff from the previous installments. A lot of people are saying it's a huge step backwards gameplay wise.
Fallout 3, brought it yesterday, played it, now it's crashing, seriously wtf. Installed two patches, keeps crashing before main menu, I tried some ffdshow tricks, didn't work.
Adding This line
iNumHWThreads=2
and editing this line (add if you don't have it)
bUseThreadedAI=1
Fixed my issue. Add it under the [general] tag to your fallout.ini file in your my documents\my games\fallout 3
Assuming you want this still. I have one where I murdered almost everyone except Amata and one where I didn't kill anyone.
It maybe be a step back for customization but in a whole it's still worms PS I love magnet adds a different venerable. BTW way fires different and they look good but act a bit different then the other games.My brain is full of fuck
My brain is full of fuck
Anyway, I got my PS3 online recently, been playing a lot of Demon's Souls. It's pretty excellent; punishingly difficult though. I also need to try Metal Gear Online, but my internet is nearly capped, so that's a non-option for now, given the two gig of patches.
Add me on PSN if you like.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (played the first and liked it quite a lot, its got its flaws though)
I'm playing this one at the moment and I'm really missing the quality of Call of Pripyat.One of the reasons I like to play games in order.
One of the reasons I like to play games in order.
:words:
I'm surprised you didn't play Clear Sky first then, as it's both first both chronological in the games timeline as well as quality.I beat Shadow of Chernobyl first because Clear Sky wasn't out at the time. This is also generally why I dislike Prequels. They essentially come pre-spoiled.
I beat Shadow of Chernobyl first because Clear Sky wasn't out at the time. This is also generally why I dislike Prequels. They essentially come pre-spoiled.
I just got a new laptop and can finally play Fallout3 among the other members of this recent generation of PC games.
So I'm most likely going to be playing Fallout3 for a good long while. It'll give me time to think about what other recently released PC games I might want to play.
Or I'll just spend that time thinking about playing more Fallout. I'll probably snatch up that new Fallout as soon as I finish messing around with this one.
yeah they have plots and w/e but they're self contained, they don't have much to do with each other. definitely gr8 games though, the newer wii one (new blood? is that what it's called?) is the better one, because it has co-op which is really funyeah, co-op is a blast in that game
Well. I'm playing Hitman: Codename 47. I remember someone here saying that the older Hitman games (Games? so Maybe I should assume 2 is this way as well?) had kind of bad gameplay elements.i know what you mean. i couldn't get through the first one either. i tried playing it like a year or two ago and just couldn't bring myself to devote much time to it. it's really raw and the level design is really flat and empty. kinda par for the course as far as most 3d games went back then, though. the game is significant purely for the fact that it endeavored to do different things, not the execution of it.
Well. I figured I'd be able to get over/tolerate them. Like how I did with a lot of really low scoring games. But this game really is hard to play and enjoy for me.
The Main problem is that In this first one almost all of the missions only give you a faint idea of what you are supposed to be doing and why, as well as what order. It gives you VERY little information. and there is almost always only 1 real way to beat each mission effectively. Making it a game of trial and error. It's nearly impossible to get any of them right the first time without the use of Gamefaqs. or hell, get them done at all in my case.
The gun control is is fine. If not above average considering when it came out. Unfortunately, getting into combat usually means you are doing it wrong and you'll be quickly overwhelmed that way.
The AI is OK. but in some cases they'll react when they shouldn't. Like, they will identify that I have a weapon on me even if I actually don't when in disguise trying to enter some restaurant.
Since I bought the others I'm definitely giving them all a shot. and I'll probably beat this one anyway. But yeah, even for me and my ability to tolerate mediocre games. This one is a tough game to swallow.
Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar finally a harvest moon that is done right. been about N64 age when they made a good one.N64 one is easily the best one. Interesting to hear that there is another decent one? I'll have to look in to this.
N64 one is easily the best one.
was that the one on psone? because i loved that game and had a serious lack of sleep and social life as a cause of that.
am i the only one that liked back to nature better???
am i the only one that liked back to nature better???i've actually never played that one, so i can't really say!
i've actually never played that one, so i can't really say!
Metro 2033 is quite hard in some areas.
Surely it's going with Bourbon and help fight off the bandits. Lost Tunnel level. He keeps dying on me. I usually stay with him though.
Any free games out there I should be aware off?
Valkyria Chronicles 2 on the PSP is lots of fun so far!
Murder Dog, NES.
Background:
"Murder Dog" was the PAL only sequel to the hit Japanese game "Hayashi no Gaia: C.R.Y.S.T.A.L". Development team Kagomi attempted to make a game which would corner the burgeoning western market, however the game's contents and atmosphere were considered too horrifying at the time and it never saw widespread release[1].
Characters:
Murder Dog: Protagonist Murder Dog is a high-ranking officer in the Cactus City police force. A copy of the original design document makes references to him fighting a large-scale drug operation, however the actual gameplay seems to consist exclusively of Murder Dog arbitrarily killing and eating random Cactus City residents while spraying blood from his eyes and emitting unsettling 8-bit squawking noises. Poor translation has left the game's plot undecipherable, but we do know that Murder Dog vehemently drags on an animated cigar before speaking and that his comments make frequent reference to a "blazing wheel". His character design is primarily centered around two glowing blood-red eyes, which Kagomi apparantly believed would humanize the character.
Susan Atari: Referred to in the game manual as "Murder Dog Top Pooch Companion", this character is completely absent from the actual game apart from an animated Game Over sequence where she removes her dress while turning into a skeleton. Some commentators[2] believe this section to have been stolen verbatim from failed Kagomi hentai game "Cockroach Whore".
Black Danger: The chief antagonist and end boss of each stage. Black Danger is primarily depicted as a Murder Dog sprite painted black and covered in animated flies, although the game manual inexplicably used for his headshot a poorly-scanned picture of the cover to Grace Jones' "Nightclubbing" album. The appearance of this character ingame will automatically destroy both the game cartridge and the console it is played on.
Goofs & Trivia:
- When Murder Dog returns from the dead in Level Two, he was originally meant to quip "Hot Enough For Ya". The translation mysteriously replaced this with a string of swearwords.
- Entering the Konami Code at the title screen plays a cutscene where Murder Dog kills and eats an old lady.
- Murder Dog cartridges contain significant amounts of incredibly toxic chemicals, leading to some to suggest their existence as part of an aborted chemical weapons program. They are consequently illegal in every country.
- If Murder Dog remains still long enough, he will drown on the blood which pours from his mouth and face.
Get Mass Effect 2, Ed.
Downloading Amnesia.Good idea to leave a message here as a reminder, you'll have forgotten after the d/l finishes hehehe
Fuck yeah so spooky
sorry thought this was the "talk about games currently on your mind" topic my bad markIf you strain that loaf of milk bread on your neck for a minute or five you might get the admittedly bad ("hehehe") joke I was making. Download amnesia. Gotta make a note cause when the download's done you will have forgotten cause it's amnesia you're downloading. Memento.
also amnesia is too scary i cant play it
Murder Dog, NES.best post on this message board in years.
Background:
"Murder Dog" was the PAL only sequel to the hit Japanese game "Hayashi no Gaia: C.R.Y.S.T.A.L". Development team Kagomi attempted to make a game which would corner the burgeoning western market, however the game's contents and atmosphere were considered too horrifying at the time and it never saw widespread release[1].
Characters:
Murder Dog: Protagonist Murder Dog is a high-ranking officer in the Cactus City police force. A copy of the original design document makes references to him fighting a large-scale drug operation, however the actual gameplay seems to consist exclusively of Murder Dog arbitrarily killing and eating random Cactus City residents while spraying blood from his eyes and emitting unsettling 8-bit squawking noises. Poor translation has left the game's plot undecipherable, but we do know that Murder Dog vehemently drags on an animated cigar before speaking and that his comments make frequent reference to a "blazing wheel". His character design is primarily centered around two glowing blood-red eyes, which Kagomi apparantly believed would humanize the character.
Susan Atari: Referred to in the game manual as "Murder Dog Top Pooch Companion", this character is completely absent from the actual game apart from an animated Game Over sequence where she removes her dress while turning into a skeleton. Some commentators[2] believe this section to have been stolen verbatim from failed Kagomi hentai game "Cockroach Whore".
Black Danger: The chief antagonist and end boss of each stage. Black Danger is primarily depicted as a Murder Dog sprite painted black and covered in animated flies, although the game manual inexplicably used for his headshot a poorly-scanned picture of the cover to Grace Jones' "Nightclubbing" album. The appearance of this character ingame will automatically destroy both the game cartridge and the console it is played on.
Goofs & Trivia:
- When Murder Dog returns from the dead in Level Two, he was originally meant to quip "Hot Enough For Ya". The translation mysteriously replaced this with a string of swearwords.
- Entering the Konami Code at the title screen plays a cutscene where Murder Dog kills and eats an old lady.
- Murder Dog cartridges contain significant amounts of incredibly toxic chemicals, leading to some to suggest their existence as part of an aborted chemical weapons program. They are consequently illegal in every country.
- If Murder Dog remains still long enough, he will drown on the blood which pours from his mouth and face.
Murder Dog, NES.dude.
Background:
"Murder Dog" was the PAL only sequel to the hit Japanese game "Hayashi no Gaia: C.R.Y.S.T.A.L". Development team Kagomi attempted to make a game which would corner the burgeoning western market, however the game's contents and atmosphere were considered too horrifying at the time and it never saw widespread release[1].
Characters:
Murder Dog: Protagonist Murder Dog is a high-ranking officer in the Cactus City police force. A copy of the original design document makes references to him fighting a large-scale drug operation, however the actual gameplay seems to consist exclusively of Murder Dog arbitrarily killing and eating random Cactus City residents while spraying blood from his eyes and emitting unsettling 8-bit squawking noises. Poor translation has left the game's plot undecipherable, but we do know that Murder Dog vehemently drags on an animated cigar before speaking and that his comments make frequent reference to a "blazing wheel". His character design is primarily centered around two glowing blood-red eyes, which Kagomi apparantly believed would humanize the character.
Susan Atari: Referred to in the game manual as "Murder Dog Top Pooch Companion", this character is completely absent from the actual game apart from an animated Game Over sequence where she removes her dress while turning into a skeleton. Some commentators[2] believe this section to have been stolen verbatim from failed Kagomi hentai game "Cockroach Whore".
Black Danger: The chief antagonist and end boss of each stage. Black Danger is primarily depicted as a Murder Dog sprite painted black and covered in animated flies, although the game manual inexplicably used for his headshot a poorly-scanned picture of the cover to Grace Jones' "Nightclubbing" album. The appearance of this character ingame will automatically destroy both the game cartridge and the console it is played on.
Goofs & Trivia:
- When Murder Dog returns from the dead in Level Two, he was originally meant to quip "Hot Enough For Ya". The translation mysteriously replaced this with a string of swearwords.
- Entering the Konami Code at the title screen plays a cutscene where Murder Dog kills and eats an old lady.
- Murder Dog cartridges contain significant amounts of incredibly toxic chemicals, leading to some to suggest their existence as part of an aborted chemical weapons program. They are consequently illegal in every country.
- If Murder Dog remains still long enough, he will drown on the blood which pours from his mouth and face.
Metro 2033:
Why are hockey masks deflecting bullets off the back of their heads?
best post on this message board in years.
Murder Dog, NES.Let's make this happen dude. I think we can do this.
Background:
"Murder Dog" was the PAL only sequel to the hit Japanese game "Hayashi no Gaia: C.R.Y.S.T.A.L". Development team Kagomi attempted to make a game which would corner the burgeoning western market, however the game's contents and atmosphere were considered too horrifying at the time and it never saw widespread release[1].
Characters:
Murder Dog: Protagonist Murder Dog is a high-ranking officer in the Cactus City police force. A copy of the original design document makes references to him fighting a large-scale drug operation, however the actual gameplay seems to consist exclusively of Murder Dog arbitrarily killing and eating random Cactus City residents while spraying blood from his eyes and emitting unsettling 8-bit squawking noises. Poor translation has left the game's plot undecipherable, but we do know that Murder Dog vehemently drags on an animated cigar before speaking and that his comments make frequent reference to a "blazing wheel". His character design is primarily centered around two glowing blood-red eyes, which Kagomi apparantly believed would humanize the character.
Susan Atari: Referred to in the game manual as "Murder Dog Top Pooch Companion", this character is completely absent from the actual game apart from an animated Game Over sequence where she removes her dress while turning into a skeleton. Some commentators[2] believe this section to have been stolen verbatim from failed Kagomi hentai game "Cockroach Whore".
Black Danger: The chief antagonist and end boss of each stage. Black Danger is primarily depicted as a Murder Dog sprite painted black and covered in animated flies, although the game manual inexplicably used for his headshot a poorly-scanned picture of the cover to Grace Jones' "Nightclubbing" album. The appearance of this character ingame will automatically destroy both the game cartridge and the console it is played on.
Goofs & Trivia:
- When Murder Dog returns from the dead in Level Two, he was originally meant to quip "Hot Enough For Ya". The translation mysteriously replaced this with a string of swearwords.
- Entering the Konami Code at the title screen plays a cutscene where Murder Dog kills and eats an old lady.
- Murder Dog cartridges contain significant amounts of incredibly toxic chemicals, leading to some to suggest their existence as part of an aborted chemical weapons program. They are consequently illegal in every country.
- If Murder Dog remains still long enough, he will drown on the blood which pours from his mouth and face.
just bought the new blazblue yeeee
half life episode 1, I quit half life 2 though, because the canal part, with the hoverboat, I don't know what do there.Gamefaqs? I really think you should reconsider. Half Life's story is pretty good. You'd be wasting it by skipping ahead.
Gamefaqs? I really think you should reconsider. Half Life's story is pretty good. You'd be wasting it by skipping ahead.
Anyway... along with Hitman 2. I've been playing Minecraft... I bought it.
- If you miss a single shot, even when perfectly hidden, EVERYONE in the CHAPTER knows you're in the area, and knows where you're gonna come from
They tend to set off alarm bells if they hear bullets whizzing around :PI know that's the "logical excuse" but it's still bullshit. In that level where you sneak through the rebel's base and get an achievement for either killing everyone or killing nobody, I got to a bit in a tunnel where there was this dude. My gun is silenced, so I pop a shot off, but I miss. The guy turns around to face me, I shoot again and he falls. Nobody else around in this area, no alarms raised, except from that point on everyone knew where I was and shot me as soon as their line of sight connected.
In regards to the bullet deflecting, you'll just have to aim at their neck. That stops that from happening.
Metro's stealth system is kinda bullshit, which is a shame because the rest of the game is pretty solid.
I completely agree with you, I was just been sarcastic before. For instance I was playing through that level you're talking about on my nth playthrough, and I was shooting people in the back of the head with the helsing and for some reason they were screaming out and alerting everyone, which is utter bullshit.
It suffers from a case of the if I'm in shadow I'm completely invisible sometimes but sometimes everyone can see me.
Metro 2033 is pretty badass but hard as hell. I mean, I have nearly ran out of ammo most the time.
Edgar Allan Poe'sI'm gonna make this game someday.
Motocross!
Dusted off ye olde N64, going to try to play through ogre battle 64 which is probably one of my favorite games. Not the prettiest on an hdtv but does the job okay.i'm jealous dude. always wanted to play that game. love the SNES one.
Snatcher for the Sega CD (emulator) Got to the very end, but the shooting sequence is kicking my ass. The emulator keeps glitching(or the rom, idk) and I can't fire randomly. It usually happens when one of the spider things is doing it's "I'm Going to shoot now" animation. It sucks because the game won't let me change targets or fire.
Anyone know a way to slow down the emulation? Maybe that will help.
EDIT: Using the emulator "Fusion"
You know what was a good Game for sage CD was Ground Zero Texas. Never beat the game but got really closes.
Also Double Switch was an OK one.
sega cd more like night trap night trap night trap #predicablevellfirepost
Double Switch was a better Night trap
no because it didn't have dana plato FACT
yo Dragon X play you in worms got steam?
man good luck cliff has been trynig to since i bought it but im never online when he is -_-
how is minecraft nowadays? is there multiplayer adventure yet? if not is there an option to enable adventure features in sandbox mode (like.. well, collecting shit and doors and chests etc)
Well this is true but they both played almost the same and if I had to pick Double Switch had better actors.
but not dana plato do you see where i'm going with this?
i just got space invaders infinity gene last night. that game is INCREDIBLY INSANE in ways where i'm pretty sure i like it but i'm so perplexed by it that i'm not entirely sure what my real feelings are!!! but i keep wanting to play it so it must be good
also spoiler you can kill her in the game near the end.
i know this i am a night trap expert
Yes I know but I'm just ruining it for the others that might of not played the game.
a) i love my name in that quote
b) even if someone else does play night trap they're never gonna play it long enough to get that ending (i haven't gotten close to that ending i just know about it)
most people lose night trap almost immediately and never want to play it again, it basically consists of memorizing where the augs are and in what order and at what time
Well it's not a vary refined game and it's a pain in the ass remembering all the place you need to go. At least Double Switch has a HUD that shows you witch room has some action going on in it. Also would like to say the PC version looks the best.
Also I'm glad you like your name so when can I start humping your legs.... did they heal up yet?
I think I probably spent a couple of hundred hours playing Civ.2 when I was younger. Such a wonderful game. I may have to pick this up.Same here. Had the first one too.
I need a wired controller for PC that's cheap and has 2 analog inputs. Anyone advise?
I need a wired controller for PC that's cheap and has 2 analog inputs. Anyone advise?
In Minecraft do trees currently grow on Alpha single player?
Can't get them to sprout no matter what :(.
In Minecraft do trees currently grow on Alpha single player?
Can't get them to sprout no matter what :(.
Waste of Iron, really. Especially when you can build a compass and iron armour or iron tools. One bucket is more than enough.This is all in minecraft now huh :fogethuh: Used to just be about furry pixel art
call of juarez 1 is good. one of the only linear fps games ive played more than once.I don't know how well this works but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hvm8wS0lSg
never finished 2, though. just didnt interest me as much.
im going to go plant some more trees. how do i move water now that its finite? i have a bucket but it takes so long to transfer ONE unit of water. should i quit building and build nearer water or is there and easier way?
That'd be awesome if I lived in the US of A. Bah bumhug.
There's probably a UK site that has them too, I just linked that one so you'd know which one it was.
Finally finished Far Cry 2. The credits were rather representative of the actual game. Long, boring and unskippable.That game had everything it needed to be great, gameplay-wise. But the setting sucked all the fun out of it.
Playing DnD, biznatches. v. 3ish.
I'm a 5'11'' 35yo pink half-orc named Malak, complete with friendship bracelet and 10 foot pole.
Playing DnD, biznatches. v. 3ish.Just curious as I wanna get into Dungeons and Dragons but what is the name of the game your playing?
I'm a 5'11'' 35yo pink half-orc named Malak, complete with friendship bracelet and 10 foot pole.
I know that if I don't get either I can buy New Vegas but that will probably ruin my career.
Decided to pick up Blazblue Continuum Shift for ps3 because I wanted a good fighter and really liked guilty gears when I downloaded it for the pc. Kind of pissed one DLC character is 2 bucks and the other one is 8.If you're talking about Mu-12, you can unlock her for free just by completing story mode. Basically, you pay to unlock her if you're too lazy to do that.
How's Civ 5?
tactics advanced sucks ass btw
uh U suck ass buddy
If you're talking about Mu-12, you can unlock her for free just by completing story mode. Basically, you pay to unlock her if you're too lazy to do that.
tactics advanced really does suck
uh U suck ass buddy
Just played Enslaved's demothis looks like a mix of tomb raider and anime
Also I was looking online and found this.This is b'dass.
How many True Cards have you earned? I've only got Louie and Charme so far. Louie doesn't matter since he's already playable from the start and Charme's close enough to immediate unlock by now that having her card is just about as worthless except for blazing through the first two dungeons with her dash. I've been concentrating on Griff's because he's generally the last one to get before Arma.
Hitman 2 and Contracts are a great laugh. I'm not sure if they stand the test of time though.They do hold up really well. At least for me.
What the fuck? I asked for advice with my problem not wishlists of your own you self-centered bunch of piss tits! :throw:
Has anyone ever played Grandia? It's 10 dollars on the PSN and I'm kind of sick of FF12 at the moment so I'm thinking of grabbing this or Wild Arms 1 or 2 which are only 6 bucks.
I really like FF12 but I think it's pretty obvious Vaan was just kind of thrown into the lead role for no apparent reason (unless after 40+ hours he stops being such a backseat character). I think they could of easily thrown a 4th party member in there and the battle system wouldn't of been any more complicated even with the 5th guest every once in awhile. The combat is just kind of boring now and I'm not to fond with the cast of characters. I mean you are in this world full of moogles and lizard men and bunny people and tiger people and they fill your party up with 5 humes and then Fran who is kind of dull.
I do like the plot so far and the music is pretty amazing in some parts of the game. Combat is okay but the license board is a little simplistic for my tastes.
Beat Hitman: Blood Money
Spoiler talk:Hidden content (Click to reveal)huh... I was fully expecting 47 to get up and shoot everyone at his funeral. Especially with the "heart pump" effect. Because it was a pretty huge shock that Diana injected him with the "poison". With Hitman 5 apparently planned for release eventually I imagine she actually injected him with that stuff that makes you look dead, when you really aren't. (it was sed in that earlier mission at the alcoholics medical place
OhHidden content (Click to reveal)The heart beat speeds up if you mash one of the buttons (I totally forget which, just experiment). Then, if you do it fast enough, he gets up.
FIFA11
Ok guys can anyone reccomend me a xbox 360 game (any genre) with a fun single player mode and a fun online mode?
Ok guys can anyone reccomend me a xbox 360 game (any genre) with a fun single player mode and a fun online mode?Red Dead Redemption: Imagine GTA in a wild west setting where you don't have to be a dick... Or Crackdown with better graphics and cowboys instead of super heroes :/
It's a shame you're a peasant 360 user.You mean the manbox 360?
Red Dead Redemption: Imagine GTA in a wild west setting where you don't have to be a dick... Or Crackdown with better graphics and cowboys instead of super heroes :/
Forza Motorsport 3: Forza 3 >>>>> Gran Tourismo (I haven't played GT5 though as I refuse to buy a demo).
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Decent on-line play, but the generic "Russians trying to bomb America with nukes" bull crap solo campaign.
Battle-Field: Bad Company 2: Much like MW2, only with humor and destructible environments which work really well.
BC2 also lacks MW2's killstreaks, which I actually find to be a good thing as it stops nuke boosting and makes things fairer (anyone can jump in the tanks on the maps).
Also, the ability to strategically blow holes in buildings allows you to create your own vantage points, making things less predictable.
Halo 3: Pretty meh in terms of campaign play, but the online isn't bad if anyone is still not playing Reach.
Halo: ODST: Better solo play than Halo 3 and it comes with the entire Halo 3 on-line mode (including DLC) on a bonus disc.
Halo: Reach: Bungie's final Halo game, and one of their best.
Dead Rising 2 Zombies + lawnmowers, chainsaws, swords, light sabers, flame throwers, bombs, axes, sledgehammers, etc. = FUN!!!
Saints Row 2: > GTA IV.
Fallout 3: Basically, Oblivion in the Fallout universe, with VATS and the usual Bethesda humor in place of the usual Fallout humor.
OhHidden content (Click to reveal)Welp. did so. Feel kind of dumb for not figuring that out... then again. As a rule I don't press buttons during cut-scenes or credits. Cut-scenes because I worry that I'll skip it. Same reason for credits because sometimes if you sit through cut-scenes you get an extra ending cut-scene as a reward for sitting through them.
I'd say L4D2 is work $7 if you like the game type.
I hated Bad Company 2's campaign. it was pretty awfulYeah it wasn't nearly as good as the first one's campaign. Pretty dull.
I bought it. I was pretty much waiting for it to go below ten bucks. Left 4 dead one was really short on content so I didn't have much interest in 2. I'll play it a little when I'm done with Clear Sky.
Also. I really like MW2 multiplayer (despite it having fucking matchmaking) however, even when 50% off the map packs (combined they have 6 new maps and 4 remakes) are 15$ total it only just BARELY seems worth it. Should I buy it and forsake whatever the next sale steam has? This could reignite my interest in the game pretty quickly...
Of course if I don't buy them, who knows when they will become cheaper again... and $30 for the packs is totally out of the question.
Yeah it wasn't nearly as good as the first one's campaign. Pretty dull.
Also I made this with google's new chart app:
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Man these consecutive boss battles at the end of Cave Story are hard.I aboslutely adored Cave Story and regret not playing it before I did. It was a very charming, atmospheric, and well-made platformer that is very deserving of some sort of sequel.
Out of curiosity. did you buy them for full price?
I aboslutely adored Cave Story and regret not playing it before I did. It was a very charming, atmospheric, and well-made platformer that is very deserving of some sort of sequel.Yeah, I'm talking about Misery, the Doctor, the Undead Core and then Sacred Grounds. And I don't have my life pot anymore, and I didn't get all of the health upgrades. So yeah. I do have the Spur and Booster 2.0 though.
Also, aren't you referring to, IIRC, the doctor, misery, and the undead core? I remember finding the earlier ending and feeling disappointed at the fact that I couldnt save the island, but then I read a walkthrough and continued to play through the rest of the content. I should really play it again whenever I find the spare time.
beat enslaved in 9 hours, really liked it. fantastic setting and some of the sceneries were pretty breathtaking, one of my favorite ps3 games for sure. i wish there were more good adventures games like it and uncharted series. :(
anyway, started castlevania lords of shadow. pretty good so far but nothing special. it's pretty difficult which is nice.
I'm curious if Lords of Shadow is worth the price tag. I heard from a lot of people it's a pretty difficult game, but I'm curious about the length and shit. Hoping you can unlock Richter or something.i read a few reviews before it came out and some said it's 15-20 hours long and others said it's 20-25 hours long so it's a pretty lengthy game.
sounds le a good gameit is
Take Halo and Gears of War. Add them together. Add more post-processing than acceptable by human eyes.Just watched a video of that game and there was absolutely nothing remarkable about it except for the absolutely terrible dialog: "We have eight hours to stop that from happening. We will stop that from happening."
That's Vanquish (PS3).
I spend my time playing Team Fortress 2 almost constantly these days.
I predict I'll be playing Sonic the Hedgehog 4 soon, come this 11th.
Take Halo and Gears of War. Add them together. Add more post-processing than acceptable by human eyes.I wouldn't say Vanquish is that much like either of those. Gears of War, I suppose, due to the cover system, but pretty much every third person shooter in the last 4 years uses a similar system. Plus Vanquish is actually fun.
That's Vanquish (PS3).
dead rising 2
still a lot neater than dead rising 1
So I rented NBA jam and it is ridiculously fun, but I'm still not sure if I'd pay the 50-60$ they are probably going to ask for the PS360 versions. I mean HD would be nice but I can't see this being a fun online game since none of my friends own a ps3. And I don't feel like shelling out an extra hundred bucks for 2 more ps3 controllers to play 2v2.
I've posted about these before but seriously, if you don't have a problem with wired controllers grab some of these (http://www.meritline.com/komodo-nxp3-050-wired-usb-controller-ps3---p-47352.aspx?source=fghdac)
$50 or w/e is pretty high, but like I said this is one of my absolute favorite games to play with other people so I have no problem with that.
I have a total boner for Gran Turismo 5.
I already bought FIFA11. Must not buy more games... bad ed!
I want castlevania lords of shadow real bad hopefully il be able to pick it up on release day.it was released last week
depends on your locationRelease date(s)
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netherlands 2 - 0 china PR (stekelenburg 78', 90')STEKELENBURG!
go buy FIFA 11 guys
Personally, I've never found the flaming gloves to be that useful.
The knife gloves are more useful, as are the tenderizers (MMA gloves + nails).
I've started using the defiler more now that I have it's combo card as it's too slow with just it's scratch card.
The defiler can take down looters and mercs with ease, making "Run for the Money" fairly easy.
The hacker is the most useless combo weapon I've seen thus far as you can burn though it's battery just to kill a couple of zombies.
The more powerful jump kick can be quite useful as it can take out any normal or fat zombie unlike the regular jump kick, which only kills female zombies (everyone knows vaginas are for pussies).
It can also kill mercs and looters in only two hits or so.
I'm about level 31 as I kind of got carried away and didn't give Katey her Zombrex at one point because killing zombies is more fun than drugging kids with annoyingly spelled names.
I also had a problem beating the twins, but I got past them using the beam sword combo weapon, which is pretty damned powerful, but breaks easily (I took two, and only ended up using one).
I'm thinking of buying Enslaved as I really enjoyed both Uncharted games and it seems similar.
The only thing putting me off is that a lot of reviews say there's some serious graphical issues, though most Unreal Engine based games have some graphical issues (texture issues and such).
STEKELENBURG!i hit the bar from 25 yards in stoppage time too. would've been a wonderful hat trick
Anyone tried to upload any goal clips to YouTube yet from FIFA11? I just find that the video length you're allowed is pathetic.
I think the day 1 purchasers of that game are the kinda people who could be sold sand in the desert.Out of Curiosity, are you talking about Dead Rising 2?
League of Legends: Free Champion Weekend
It's good that I can try out the champions I haven't bought, but so can everyone else. Usually end up on a team of 5 people all playing champions for the first time, against 5 people playing their mains.
What aren't I playing?mb buy somethin better instead
http://kotaku.com/5662886/gran-turismo-5-delayed-now-coming-this-holiday-season
FFS.
Just rented FFXIII please tell me it gets better.
You know, Vellfire - after our game last night I have not been able to reconnect my PC to the wired connection in my room! I think Fifa11 has confused the DNS servers in my halls and now I am reduced to stealing 56k-esque WiFi from the uni building across the street!
It's gonna be a long weekend!
The best zelda is Majora's Mask fyi.
Majora's Mask is probably the best because it's really weird but in this relentlessly miserable and unpleasant way. Like some of the design decisions to do with saving or going back in time are kind of bad but it is just so relentlessly stuffed with horrible shit jesus christ. Some of the characters become comatose with depression if you don't do their subquests in time and the fact that you have to endlessly start over means they are essentially doomed to endless cycles of misery and grief. Uh the best example is the GORON PLACE possibly because while before it was kind of fun/whimsical place with cool dudes etc in ocarina of time now its a horrible icy wasteland filled with the sound of a shrieking baby on repeat and with old men freezing to death in the snow. anyone remember the tree at the end of the tutorial level which is just an incredibly sad looking face on a shrub thing that you can't do anything with and it serves no purpose whatsoever apart from horrifying you because the entire game is basically like that. It is basically the dark world from ocarina of time except instead of holding out hope for return everyone just kind of gets on with things. oh well the moon is openly snarling at us with gigantic bloodred eyes, ho hum....Yeah Majora's Mask is one of the best games because of this. It has a bunch of just depressing/dark atmosphere, hands coming out of toilets desperate for toilet roll and so on but the fact that even though you can time travel it's impossible to help everyone is the most depressing thing about it. In every other zelda and most other games like it you can travel everywhere and fix everything if you're a completionist nerd but in MM there's so many people with concurrent problems that no matter how hard you try, old goron will die in the ice or if you save him something else awful will happen to someone else. It's groundhog day the game and it owns.
no it's links awakening haven't you been paying attention?
Pretty solid start for a reboot.
Fallout New Vegas! Finally got it and I can't put it down. It's noticeably harder than fallout 3 but the concepts the same. I really wish that they would improve the non-VATS control of the game. Its still hard to move around the dude's gun on the 360. I bet this problems not evident in the PC version. I've played 6 hours straight and it gets pretty interesting. The lvl cap right off the bat is 30 so thats not too bad. The perks are changed where, instead of only giving you benefits they give you a sort of disadvantage too. eg for faster attack speed, your accuracy falls with the perk.
I dont really care for all the minigames vegas style they got going on, but meh. Good game for sure, I bet they're going to milk it with DLC's, which like a sucker Im going to get.
You'd think they'd add vehicles to drive through the vast land, but so far I haven't seen anything to drive/go faster through the area. It's weird because they had it in Oblivion and now a newer game by them doesn't have it. Oh well, gg.
Hells no, it would be a rusted out old corvega.
http://fifa-world-cup.easports.com/home.action
You know you can play as international teams in Fifa 11? You just have to go exhibition match then set the country category to "International" then pick your team.
Don't play PES. PES is for inbred retards.
world of warcraft..i am also playing this on and off
You know you can play as international teams in Fifa 11? You just have to go exhibition match then set the country category to "International" then pick your team.PES4 is still the best football game ever bro.
Don't play PES. PES is for inbred retards.
Isn't PES the one with the better gameplay and FIFA the one with real player names and up to date reddening of Alex Ferguson's cheeks? Or was that just how it was in like 1998
i am also playing this on and offI thought it was just me. Like, until the mid 40's, it was an easy decision since I would always level in the same few places + random dungeons/BG CtA. The Outlands goes soo fast though with the 30% exp buff and flying mounts at 60, then Northrend takes a while longer but is still straightforward. Anyhow, I quit about a month ago because it was sapping too much time - especially now that I'm in school need to pay attention to my work. I'm really curious and interested in the new changes come Cata and subsesquent expansions, though, but I guess I'll have to rely on second-hand accounts since I never plan to pick it up again. :fogetshrug:
levelling between level 45 and outlands is utter dicks
I thought it was just me. Like, until the mid 40's, it was an easy decision since I would always level in the same few places + random dungeons/BG CtA. The Outlands goes soo fast though with the 30% exp buff and flying mounts at 60, then Northrend takes a while longer but is still straightforward. Anyhow, I quit about a month ago because it was sapping too much time - especially now that I'm in school need to pay attention to my work. I'm really curious and interested in the new changes come Cata and subsesquent expansions, though, but I guess I'll have to rely on second-hand accounts since I never plan to pick it up again. :fogetshrug:p much everyone in my guild, and all my friends agree that 40-outlands pretty much sucks.
I can't believe people still play WoW I guess it's EQ syndrome all over again. Like even if I didn't think it was a piece of shit game at this point it's just wasting money because it's been on the market so long it's pretty much impossible to make anything new and exciting for it. Just rinse poop and repeat basically.I've always enjoyed WoW and it's good for keeping in contact with my sister too. And 15 dollars a month is hardly going to drive me to bankrupcy.
p much everyone in my guild, and all my friends agree that 40-outlands pretty much sucks.
how it was in like 1998international superstar soccer pro <3
I can't believe people still play WoW I guess it's EQ syndrome all over again. Like even if I didn't think it was a piece of shit game at this point it's just wasting money because it's been on the market so long it's pretty much impossible to make anything new and exciting for it. Just rinse poop and repeat basically.it's fun if you have someone to play with. i still don't care about raiding too much but i have never even played any bc/wotlk content and cataclysm is coming out soon so i got some motivation to play again. it's still the best and pretty much only worthwhile mmorpg there is! you got a point though, it's too streamlined/easy nowadays. way too easy to level, you can instantly warp to any instance without having to party up the hard way and actually finding/going to the instance, world pvp has died since battlegrounds were implemented and almost every character which isn't level 80 is someone's alt and everyone knows exactly how to play and yeah, it's less exciting overall for those reasons. it'll never be as fun as it used to be especially when there were like 20-30 of us gwers playing it but it's still fun enough to play. if there was another good mmorpg i'd probably play it instead but there isn't. so i suppose we'll just have to wait for the next blizzard mmorpg.
Forever's End.Yeah, it's good.I talked with the creator about a few plot holes and spelling mistakes after I played, and tossed around a few ideas.. I assume the comic-style cut scenes shown in the video won't actually premier until the NEXT demo?
The reason WoW is the only good MMO is because all other MMO's have no chance of succeeding regardless how good they are. And that's simply because WoW has so many freaking players who will take WoW over every other game. Age of Conan, Warhammer, all of them failed miserable compared to WoW. Blizzard just has a too big headstart, they've been in the game for five years.Most other MMOs I've played have been horrible so
Isn't Fallout Vegas called Fallout Crash?.It's only crashed twice for me and I've played it a LOT.
Isn't Fallout Vegas called Fallout Crash?.
They should've done it for New Vegas. The QA section at bethesda must be one really lazy guy who is not doing his job correctly.lol i actually know one of the testers at bethesda. and yes i can confirm that he is very lazy and is definitely either some high functioning autistic or has aspergers. i'm really impressed the game is in as good a shape as it is to be honest. that my xbox hasn't caught on fire(yet) means he's made some major strides in the not accidentally maim yourself on innocuous office equipment department.
well, i decided to finally catch up with the current trends a little bit and buy a game that was released only 3 years ago!! yeah, i got mass effect.
i'm a good 15/16 hours into it, and i like it. it really captures how i think space exploration would be like: a lot of rock, a bit of harsh weather and weird fucking sexy alien things in total recall style strip clubs. the game just keeps throwing quests down your throat though, and it gets annoying because they're pretty much all the same (go to planet find research lab kill turrets outside run in and deal with geth/angry cultists). the EXP system is pretty cool though, i like that i can get 96 exp by checking out the hull of my space ship, that sits nicely with me.
there's a lot of nice ideas in the game (i really love those monotone aliens who say how they're intending a sentence to be spoken before their dialogue, they're pretty cool) but the story is pretty boring and tedious, the characters largely there just to fill certain roles (dedicated soldier, good cop, archaeology girl, head hunter etc) but this game is pretty much all about the side quests anyway. i mean its really in depth, there's a lot going on and its easy to get pretty lost in it all, but its largely quantity over quality. i dunno, maybe itll pick up as the storyline missions go on, i'm not too far into it, i've mostly been going out surveying planets for weird teenage literature and alien dongs.
it doesnt pick up at all
at all.
i also picked up star wars the force unleashed, the first one for the pc. i know this game got a lot of critiscism, but i think it's pretty good. the gameplay and controls are sometimes a bit awkward, and the game relies way more on the force then on lightsaber fighting, but still. i just think it's too bad you don't visit any classic planets like naboo or tatooine. it's also a bit strange that suddenly we have all these new jedi masters who never appeared during the prequel trilogy.also been playing this today
it doesnt pick up at all
at all.
been playind dwarf fortress.. damn, it's HUGE..
What do you mean by single screen thing?
I could have done without the whole research facility subplot though, actually so far it's the only downer of the game. It could have been a better game on its own without that bullshit.
I was exploring a new civ5 map and all of a sudden CHINGGIS KHAN showed up I didn't know what was going on I had no idea they were adding content. it was pretty neat
he is riding the same horse as alexander and he might have the same background
ya i'll be downloading civ5 soon because of this because i am 100% gay for genghis khanwe know you are gay for cinggis qayan you don't have to throw it in our faces
P.S.
Can anyone recommend anything decent to download off of Xbox LIVE for 800MSP as my copy of New Vegas came with some free points.
luckily the fighting in this game is awesome, i especially love counter attacks.well that's good considering counter attacks are ALL YOU DO if you have any intention of not dying
well that's good considering counter attacks are ALL YOU DO if you have any intention of not dying
The way all the areas are broken up into screens of fixed height/width, without scrolling or whatever. It's a small thing but it makes all the individual locations seem kind of arbitrarily placed sometimes so you never get a real feeling of where you are. I don't know, maybe it's just me!Oh yeah that. It's been ~11 years since I played it but I think I actually quite liked that because it made the map overview screen a super neat grid like an american city.
Picked up Assasin's Creed, damn I can't believe I didn't try it before. I always thought I wouldn't like it, but I was wrong, this game rocks. Being able to jump from rooftop to rooftop and dive straight down into haystacks like an athlete is just awesome.The second game does a lot better with the future plot, tying the two together very well. It also doesn't spend a lot of time there, instead focusing almost entirely on the past.
I could have done without the whole research facility subplot though, actually so far it's the only downer of the game. It could have been a better game on its own without that bullshit.
I'm playing fallout new vegas. I don't know if it's just me looking for the good, but I think I do like the tone of this a little bit better so far. The humour is still totally...flaccid. I just rounded up a bunch of townspeople to fight off a gang of escaped convicts though, and I'd only been playing for an hour at that point. I hope there are more interesting quests like that. Although it was pretty anti-climatic but I am playing on the easy mode, so that's okay. I like the look of the game better, too. I like the desert. I'm not really blown away by anything in particular, it's the same thing as before but it feels just a little bit sharper. Like you'd only notice it was there if you were looking for it, like with the writing.
michael hogan is in this game. his part isn't very interesting. he is tigh from battlestar galactica, who i liked on that show.
been playind dwarf fortress.. damn, it's HUGE..go find some obsidian and build something immense
check this idea:
I've been playing fallout new vegas and I like it a lot more than I was expecting to. One thing I've been doing this time that I didn't do in 3 is turn on the radio. Some of the music is pretty good and really helps the atmosphere of the game. Only thing is the music is limited and you've heard everything mr. new vegas has to say after an hour or two. I like the updates as you progress through the game but those are really brief THE WORLD IS ALIVE! moments.
so I was thinking it might be a good idea to make some kind of additional radio station mod for the game. I had this idea of a station called 'VaultBoyz' and it's a talk show about 2 incredibly shallow jackasses talking about their exploits around new vegas. they were cooped up in the vault all their lives and now these boyz are goin wild!!! that's the only talk show idea i've had so far, obviously a music station would require a lot less thought, just pick a theme and choose some of the best tracks.
does anyone else think this is a cool idea? also, i IMAGINE it would be easy to make this mod and put it into the game, does anyone have any knowledge on that sort of thing? maybe i should just clam it and make a game of my own if it's difficult.
does anyone else think this is a cool idea? also, i IMAGINE it would be easy to make this mod and put it into the game, does anyone have any knowledge on that sort of thing? maybe i should just clam it and make a game of my own if it's difficult.
check this idea:there are already mods for that, i even have one with a bunch of music similar to the stuff already in it(you can add you own music, but you have to convert it properly for it to work and i'm to lazy to go though all that).
I've been playing fallout new vegas and I like it a lot more than I was expecting to. One thing I've been doing this time that I didn't do in 3 is turn on the radio. Some of the music is pretty good and really helps the atmosphere of the game. Only thing is the music is limited and you've heard everything mr. new vegas has to say after an hour or two. I like the updates as you progress through the game but those are really brief THE WORLD IS ALIVE! moments.
so I was thinking it might be a good idea to make some kind of additional radio station mod for the game. I had this idea of a station called 'VaultBoyz' and it's a talk show about 2 incredibly shallow jackasses talking about their exploits around new vegas. they were cooped up in the vault all their lives and now these boyz are goin wild!!! that's the only talk show idea i've had so far, obviously a music station would require a lot less thought, just pick a theme and choose some of the best tracks.
does anyone else think this is a cool idea? also, i IMAGINE it would be easy to make this mod and put it into the game, does anyone have any knowledge on that sort of thing? maybe i should just clam it and make a game of my own if it's difficult.
check this idea:count me in if you ever decide to make something like this. sounds like it'd be pretty fun.
I've been playing fallout new vegas and I like it a lot more than I was expecting to. One thing I've been doing this time that I didn't do in 3 is turn on the radio. Some of the music is pretty good and really helps the atmosphere of the game. Only thing is the music is limited and you've heard everything mr. new vegas has to say after an hour or two. I like the updates as you progress through the game but those are really brief THE WORLD IS ALIVE! moments.
so I was thinking it might be a good idea to make some kind of additional radio station mod for the game. I had this idea of a station called 'VaultBoyz' and it's a talk show about 2 incredibly shallow jackasses talking about their exploits around new vegas. they were cooped up in the vault all their lives and now these boyz are goin wild!!! that's the only talk show idea i've had so far, obviously a music station would require a lot less thought, just pick a theme and choose some of the best tracks.
does anyone else think this is a cool idea? also, i IMAGINE it would be easy to make this mod and put it into the game, does anyone have any knowledge on that sort of thing? maybe i should just clam it and make a game of my own if it's difficult.
The Burning Grail seems like a nice play.It's a great game, I have completed it 3 times now. Which is saying a lot for a RPG Maker game since I never complete any.
I sorta got burned out on New Vegas before I even left primm, I'ma try to keep playing though. I'm going to switch off hardcore mode because all you get is a stupid achievement apparently and It's very poorly implemented.
Trying a totally non combatative character in New Vegas. Hopefully it's actually doable.i'm pretty sure it would be possible. if i remember correctly all of the main storyline quests can be completed by lurking around and talking your way through problems. not sure about the final quest, though.
There's an article on Kotaku about a dude who did it. He didn't kill any people or animals, the game took him fifty hours. It doesn't say if he used followers or not though.http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=24221124&postcount=9108
I was in the mood for an adventure game so I bought The Longest Journey + Dreamfall. I only just started the Longest Journey and I like what I've seen so far.how much was it? where did you buy it. i wanna play the longest journey too.
Good old Games (http://www.gog.com) has them and many other classics.
They've got all the old Dungeons and Dragons games from the Baldur's Gate era (or at least they will as they keep releasing games) and Neverwinter Nights. They also have Heroes of Might and Magic III (widely regarded as the best one) and a ton of other stuff.
I think they take requests for future re-releases.
how much was it? where did you buy it. i wanna play the longest journey too.Got it at Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/sub/320/ ($24.99 USD for the two games)
For some reason I feel really dirty about creating a station that's a terminus. The other end has to be connected to something! Maybe... it's just OCD.Well, there's also that trains can't just reverse direction in real life, so they're not even really possible until you get dual locomotives.
I remember the burning grail. It's short but awesome. Very well made.
anyone making a texture pack
so what exactly is minecraftessentially a game where you build stuff out of cubes. we're talking about minecraft alpha, which is unlike the multiplayer game me and jamie and chef and others played a while back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfS4vvUu3Jo in that you have to gather resources to build and you play in an infinite world
building garbage just for the hell of it is only fun for so long
building garbage just for the hell of it is only fun for so long
I was hoping for something that makes exploring more worthwhile too, like ruins or npc-populated (eg pigmen) villages or localized resources. biomes might fix that a little, I haven't been able to play a new map for long enough yet
so what exactly is minecraftSurprised no one posted this:
I want it so bad but I cannot justify £40 for six hours of singleplayer and a multiplayer I will never touch.no, you justify the £40 for the Nazi Zombies itself.
no, you justify the £40 for the Nazi Zombies itself.
You don't play CoD multiplayer? Why the hell not?
You don't play CoD multiplayer? Why the hell not?Because it's been stagnant since CoD4 and the only thing that's changed since is a gradual decline in quality?
You really think it's that fun? Honestly?
Because it's been stagnant since CoD4 and the only thing that's changed since is a gradual decline in quality?With the exception of the introduction of Matchmaking Only Online for PC (ARRRGH), and the balance issues, I thought a lot of the changes from CoD4 to MW2 multiplayer were positive and numerous enough. Certainly not stagnant.
Rune Factory 3 really hit the mark this time around I've been playing on my flash card and it truly feels like something special.... If you look past that half of the population in the town are pure nut jobs and maybe the fact that your a half human and monster which means the fabric of your existence is somebody had to be in to beastailty. (I'll go on a limb and say I blame the father).
When I played rune Factory 2 I didn't seem to like it as much as the Original I mean yes it had improvement but I didn't like how the layout of the town was and a few other things that threw me off but now on RF3 everything improved and the layout is so much better.
Edit: And it keeps a good amount of the Harvest Moon feel hell might be better then harvest moon in some aspects.
RF> RF2
RF< RF3
You really think it's that fun? Honestly?
Yeah, I downloaded Rune Factory 3 maybe an hour after it was dumped and played through the first day. It's really good! Lots better than Rune Factory 2, though most things in life are more fun than Rune Factory 2 (nurrr let's basically make the game a 90s shareware trial version until you get married and have a kid *farts*). I'm not gonna get too far into it yet, though, because I'm still playing through Rune Factory Frontier and I want to completely destroy that before I move onto the next one
I actually dismissed Rune Factory offhandedly when I first heard about it. It had that "MCDONALDS: THE RPG" anime art style that every Tales game has, so I think there was some kind of subconscious association between the two that was turning me off. Welp, turns out that it's one of the better games I've played this decade. Fuck me, I guess! It's actually BETTER than the original Harvest Moon at the things Harvest Moon is known for, even if you ignore the competent dungeon crawler they grafted onto it.
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img230.imageshack.us/img230/9721/ambient.png)
ambient occlusion loves my textures
they make a lovely couple
Because it's been stagnant since CoD4 and the only thing that's changed since is a gradual decline in quality?that's pretty good man. I was reading from the bottom up and didn't make the mother 3 connection immediately but now I see it, I didn't realize how much overlap there is
I have been playing Mother 3. I like it a lot. So I decided to make a Mother 3 themed texture pack for Minecraft. Go look at it it's pretty.
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1057/weblogo.png) (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=83721&p=1273009#p1273009)
Anyway, Up to chapter 7 currently. I like this a lot more than Earthbound. I don't think that's a very popular opinion but I can't really see anything Earthbound has over Mother 3 at all.
what the fuck are you guys talking about the first rune factory was TERRIBLE
i didn't play any of the others (because of how bad the first one was) but i don't see how you could possibly say that it is better than the psx or n64 harvest moon.
jesus it even starts off so bad. when harvest moon outdoes you in premise it's really a bad sign. harvest moon's premise was "i used to go to grandpa's farm as a kid but now he is dead so i am in charge of it..." here's how rune factory starts without exaggeration:
"hi mysterious 15 year old girl living by yourself"
"hi stranger who are you"
"actually i don't remember my past do you have something i could drink?"
"sure but...actually nm why don't you just take this entire farm i have?????"
"uh okay!!!"
*cue a bunch of boring dungeon crawling*
edit: i forgot to include the title screen, it actually starts off with some young lad going "RUUUNE FACTORY!!!!!" at you and THEN all of that stuff
man it apparently got great reviews even but most of them are actually "you will probably not like this game unless you like harvest moon in which case you'll love it" but for me it was more like "why am i not playing harvest moon instead so i don't have to sit here and dungeon crawl" i think rune factory is the one game i bought for the ds and completely regretted it, i think i even liked zoo tycoon ds better because at least its big problem was controls instead of making me furious or bored at every given moment
i don't have a flash cart because most of the ds games i play (not too many) are things i WANT to pay for (like phoenix wright)
It was in the topic actually. You probably missed it.
I'll reserve my final judgment for when I see them wood textures
It was in the topic actually. You probably missed it.
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It was in the topic actually. You probably missed it.oh yeah I saw that. you got the design from the porch in front of grandpa's house I guess. the wrap is kind of messed up but I think you should consider redoing this one altogether in favor or something simpler and with less variation like something from here
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img109.imageshack.us/img109/5633/planks.png)
oh my gosh nazi zombies this has never been done before in a gameuh, not with this kind of execution, no.
uh, not with this kind of execution, no.This, CoD Nazi zombies is unique it's my 2nd favorite wave defense in a shooter (1st being gears of war 2s horde mode)
uh, not with this kind of execution, no.
uh, not with this kind of execution, no.
I think it's time to stop with the nazi zombies and move on to zani zombies. Zombies that are totally off the wall and bubbly and super fun to be around.
I might actually do that. The wrapping is pretty annoying to fix (read: impossible) but that wood sprite seems to fit the simplistic style a lot more. I'll try it out now.(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3263/carnasie.png)
it looks good, better in the game than in the screens. torches on cobble are awesome nowWhat does the HD patch do to break your game? Also, I built a house-
it'd be nice if it didn't require the hd patch because that breaks the game for me. without it all that's missing is netherstone, fire and the portal tiles
some of the tools and crafting items are kind of confusing
What does the HD patch do to break your game?stops at the loading screen. I am using the downloaded game so idk
Emissions, clear sky, crashed.I assume you mean the game crashed during an emission. Huh, never happened to me.
stops at the loading screen. I am using the downloaded game so idkIs it a black screen? If so, I'm pretty sure I know how to fix it. Install my pack, or any 32x32 pack, like normal, without the patcher, and select it, then load up a save I guess. After that, close Minecraft. Now use the HD patcher. It seems there's a problem with Minecraft trying to load 16x16 packs when the patcher has made it expect 32x32 or something.
Is it a black screen? If so, I'm pretty sure I know how to fix it. Install my pack, or any 32x32 pack, like normal, without the patcher, and select it, then load up a save I guess. After that, close Minecraft. Now use the HD patcher. It seems there's a problem with Minecraft trying to load 16x16 packs when the patcher has made it expect 32x32 or something.it wasn't a black screen, it got stuck loading at the end. but that seems to have fixed it anyway
Bought Bloody Good Time yesterday. It's basically The Ship with a little too much red cordial, but that's not a bad thing.I haven't heard about this until now. it sounds like it might be good, I loved the ship
Been playing Gran Turismo 5 Prologue again to warm up for the full game's release. Already pre-ordered GT5 from Amazon, so I should have it this week. Anyone else plan on getting it?
I haven't heard about this until now. it sounds like it might be good, I loved the shipI haven't actually played The Ship, but it's the same gameplay style and it's by the same devs, so it's basically a spiritual sequel or whatever. It's like it a lot.
So yeah, Poker Night at the Inventory is actually pretty fucking good.
It's ok wish there was more icons/character to play with.
phoenix wright (all of 'em, plus ace attorney investigations), professor layton, hotel dusk and retro game challenge are my 'must-have's for the DS. also ghost trick is coming out early next year, definitely get that. feel the magic has a fun vibe to it, i would only get it if you can get it cheap though. also you should grab gunpey ds, especially since it's usually like $5 or less from gamestop on a normal day, with some sort of black friday deals it'd probably end up being free.
if you're going the flashcard route don't get retro game challenge btw. i will personally come to your house and murder you if you pirate this game (this goes for everyone (i am very serious about this you must buy this game with money))
Still playing Fallout 3. Paid for a prostitute and she laid down on my bed and immediately got back up and left. Worst game ever.In New Vegas you get into the bed and they make SOUNDS while it fades to black. It's pretty RACEY.
(no really i'm having a lot of fun this is a good game)
In New Vegas you get into the bed and they make SOUNDS while it fades to black. It's pretty RACEY.
just finished an impromptu speedrun of new vegas without firing a bullet.how dare you.
how dare you.i'm such a rebel. i didn't even set up videocapture it or figure out a way to get a tool-assisted time either. :(
without first having undergone the initiation ritual?
You're pretty much paying for a bed. Except buying a bed is generally cheaper.
So it's utterly pointless.
So since I know some of you dudes are playing New Vegas anyone wanna tell me what's new in it?Vegas.
So since I know some of you dudes are playing New Vegas anyone wanna tell me what's new in it? Like what are the big things that differ from Fallout 3 is there anything particularly amazing because it'll be a while before I feel like I've played enough Fallout 3 but I've kinda been considering playing New Vegas at the same time because it does seem interesting.
Vegas.
Hahaha nice work Dada.
So since I know some of you dudes are playing New Vegas anyone wanna tell me what's new in it? Like what are the big things that differ from Fallout 3 is there anything particularly amazing because it'll be a while before I feel like I've played enough Fallout 3 but I've kinda been considering playing New Vegas at the same time because it does seem interesting.
I concur. The last level of Psychonauts is a bitch and a half. End boss is easy though.
There are a lot more glitches in New Vegas than in Fallout 3
So since I know some of you dudes are playing New Vegas anyone wanna tell me what's new in it? Like what are the big things that differ from Fallout 3 is there anything particularly amazing because it'll be a while before I feel like I've played enough Fallout 3 but I've kinda been considering playing New Vegas at the same time because it does seem interesting.This is a difficult thing to really describe. The fundamentals of the game are identical. You sit down and play the game for an hour or two and it'll basically feel like an expansion pack to Fallout 3. But the more you play the game the more it'll just feel pretty different. I'll throw some bullet points out there for you, since the differences come more in nuances and design choices rather than really overarching changes in the game.
It's a chinese RPG game, and no, it's not an SRPG, it has a turn-based battle system
what kind of rpg is chinese paladin? those screenshots look swell and also is there an english version? it looks like it might be an srpg.
What?! You obviously didn't play Fallout 3 at release, because it had just as many bugs when it first came out as New Vegas did.
Well, I actually managed to defuse the bomb on the train, and the train still left to explode. Unless I missed a bomb somewhere, I don't think it was meant to do that.The train's supposed to explode I think. You have to use your watch laser to cut away the floor panel to get out in time
the moment i don´t really find the time to play browser games (http://www.saltw.net/browsergamez.com) or so on... have to learn =(
apart from that i play star trek (http://star-trek-infinite-space.browsergamez.com/) or stellar dawn (http://stellar-dawn.browsergamez.com/%20) =)
Chinese Paladin looks pretty stellar, how is it?It's got an awesome storyline, which changes from a quest to revive your aunt, and then find your fiancees mother into saving the world. The storyline is awesome and some scenes are really humourous, though the only thing that ruins this game is the somewhat disbalanced fighting system...
Yesterday i found something nice... browsergamez.com you can get a gift from santa
I think someone should buy me Super Meat Boy. Just saying.
Oh yeah I didn't really like the demo of Super Meat Boy
i'm playing openttd for the first time! i have no idea how signals are supposed to work and my railway has ground to a standstill
i'm playing openttd for the first time! i have no idea how signals are supposed to work and my railway has ground to a standstill
don't worry i've played openttd for a while and i have no idea how signals are supposed to work. but to be fair it's been a while since i've used trains at all.
I think someone should buy me Super Meat Boy. Just saying.
(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4228/christo.png)
What a gent.
i'm playing openttd for the first time! i have no idea how signals are supposed to work and my railway has ground to a standstilli've got a simple passenger rail service set up now! two stations, two simple passing areas with two sets of two-way block signals and a path signal at each end. exciting stuff, i know
i feel a pattern coming on here
(http://i56.tinypic.com/kasj0i.png)You really need the original graphics by the way they're so much better.
i feel a pattern coming on here
Got an invite into the Spiral Knights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMxpYLJQiM) preview a couple days ago and I've unlocked a few invitations in the game since then. If anybody wants to try it, let me know and I'll e-mail you one.
Playing ME2 with council saved, anderson instead of udina. etc.
Both me and Christo bought Super Meat Boy for Dr.Ears at the same time so I transferred mine to DDay for randomz.And I thank you for this.
So that's at least 3 members of GW who are gonna go mental over SMB this Christmas.
let the super mario brothers' fanclub commence.
Bad Company 2, because it was on sale on Steam. I'm enjoying it so far. Multiplayer is definitely what it was made for though, Conquest is a hell of a lot of fun.rami and i got this too but we haven't tried the multiplayer yet.
rami and i got this too but we haven't tried the multiplayer yet.
picked up the fallout new vegas expansion DEAD MONEY.
i am so mad that this is 360 exclusive because iirc it originally was gonna be on ps3 too >you probably aren't missing out too much. like i said, the dlc has some outstanding characters, but a lot of other flaws that get in the way of it being a particularly worthwhile experience. nobody out there is calling this some CAN'T MISS GAMING or anything. the positives outweigh the negatives, but only slightly. there's a lot of junk time in there.
Isn't Dead Money supposed to just be a timed exclusive? Or did I hear wrong.
Just got a DS for Christmas. Picked up Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Fun game if you liked the first two.
Any suggestions about games I should try out?
So dudes I am gonna start a new game of New Vegas on the PC (while at the same time wrapping up my current game on the PS3) because I wanna try out some mods. What are THE mods to get because there are tons and I can't be bothered to dig through them. Give me anything goofy or amazing or w/e. Also I definitely want whatever BETTER GRAPHICS mods there are so plz tell me these things.http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35570 (http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35570)
Just played Dead Rising 2, finished the entire main story with most of the survivors rescued and psychos beaten. Boxing glove + bowie knife is one of the best weapon builds I've discovered, it gives out a ton of PP even before you unlock the combo card for it, kills most bosses and isn't affected by their disarm moves like some of the weapons I've used (the storyline boss on the roof of the Yucatan knocked my swords away whenever I tried to hit him).Well that's not all of the story you need to get over time for the real end.
donkey kong country returns with a wii emulator. this game fucking rules.
I just wish you didn't need to use the nunchuk with it. I really hate it. It's dumb how they didn't give you the ability to use the GC controller or even the Wii classic controller.You can play it with just wiimote, you just use it sideways. Try starting the game with no nunchuk attached and it should work.
I bought Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time. It is very very good. Also got SSF4, still adapting to using the pad (used to a keyboard, which I was quite good with, despite how notoriously horrible keyboards are for fighting games)
The 1st Mafia was wonderful. The 2nd one had all the potential then they released 1/4 of what should've been there.
I can't fathom a PlayStation owner that has not played at least one Ratchet and Clank game and all of them are good but the weakest one would be deadlocked for a week story followed by Tools of Destruction. because it felt like it was rush compered to the older game and missing the charm of the past games.I've played the original three, and Deadlocked. Deadlocked sucked wang.
One thing I did like about deadlocked is that the weapons can got up too lv 99 BTW yes I did that.
It was fun. But there was a lot of driving. And I know that occurs in GTA style games, but the GTA games didn't have a speed limit at least. I'd say about 40% of it was just driving from A to B with no time constraints or need to go fast etc. This issue kind of reminded me of Far Cry 2 and it's long travel times. (I beat that game too BTW)
But yeah, once you actually get to the missions, they are fun, varied, sufficiently challenging, and the story itself is some of the best stuff I've seen.
Enjoying DiRT still. I think after all the slower driving I did in Mafia I felt the need to do some more challenging driving. Made a bit of progress, at 48% now.
I've played the original three, and Deadlocked. Deadlocked sucked wang.
IDK. I've heard this argument before. I feel that in that case, there should be more of a dynamic city, where driving around rewards/challenges you somehow, instead of just forcing the slow driving on you. Furthermore:
-The game likes to save at times where if you somehow fail or encounter a mission stopping bug (Happened to me a few times) you have to do the driving all over again.
-The compass doesn't help much since the city has 3 islands you have to drive around, and many of the area look similar, forcing you to use that semi-transparent map, making it so that most of the time you are just watching a yellow arrow move around.
-You generally take the same routes, making it so you see the same areas over and over.
-Cars are very slow, speed limit makes them slower, trying to speed and get there faster usually results in either getting stopped for tickets (annoyingly slow animation) or busted (start over). Unless you have a vehicle with decent speed acceleration (Unlikely), even then, the cops in this are much harder to avoid. (in other cases I'd see this as a positive, but not in cases where you are driving in an unchallenging environment otherwise)
-I can go out and take a drive like this whenever IRL. Maybe not in a 30's motif, but still.
There should have been an option for people to fast travel, and then rewards for actually driving from point A to Point B. I like exploration however, so making me have to drive someplace the first time is fine by me mostly.
Purposefully keeping players from regular stimulation in a game is pointless. There is better ways of setting a mood, and some moods aren't worth it anyway.
But yeah, oddly enough even with this particular set of complaints (really its just 1 broken down into smaller pieces) I stand by the game as very well done and fun to play.
I just finished Chapter 1 of Ghost Trick (went really quick since it's mostly a tutorial and I had already done it in the demo), playing Chapter 2 right now. Off the bat I have to say that this the most beautiful game I've played on the DS. The animation is so absurdly fluid and the second location you're in (not gonna say much because of spoilers) is so awesome. Tons of little details. Excellent shit.
I'm playing ghost trick too and it's pretty ownage. My favourite part so far was when the main character, a ghost, doesa trick
I bought the Riddick game on Steam as it had a strangely high Metascore for a game associated with a movie franchise. I haven't played it because I have exams but have any of you? Will I like it?
I bought the Riddick game on Steam as it had a strangely high Metascore for a game associated with a movie franchise. I haven't played it because I have exams but have any of you? Will I like it?It's supposed to be really really good, well, at least the remake of the first that comes with it. Not sure about Dark Athena itself. I didn't buy it because it's got that TAGES DRM crap and I just can't stand that stuff.
I bought the Riddick game on Steam as it had a strangely high Metascore for a game associated with a movie franchise. I haven't played it because I have exams but have any of you? Will I like it?Really fun. I played both parts on Hard. If you consider yourself a FPS devote, go ahead and try hard. Otherwise stick to normal. I died.... A LOT. And there were parts that I stopped at an literally thought were impossible (at least for me), sometimes only beating parts through luck. I consider myself pretty good at FPS games.
Chaser (Old Sci-Fi FPS that interested me)
(all for PC of course)
dude I played this game religiously for the longest time (well since multiplayer demo came out). It was a surprisingly good game for its time. Made a clan, had a website and everything. then ran out of money to host site and we became free webs, and most clanmates moved on to other games. I'm tempted to reinstall this game just for the nostalgia. The single player stories kinda wack but still fun to run through.Maybe I'll pick this, and after I'm done with the campaign we could play.
I played Borderlands, and I can see why there is so much fuss about the ending. By far the worst payoff of any game I've ever played. I don't even want to go back and do the side missions because of it. Fuck that shit.Yeah, ending was pretty bullshit. Though the side quests aren't worth it anyway. They are too easy, and make the game easy with EXP.
I've got like thirty unplayed games just waiting for me...HAHA 30... try like 100 for me.
The sandboxing gets kind of old after awhile, fortunately you don't need to 100% all that many areas before you've pretty much unlocked the entire questline and all the faction HQ missions. I went through clusters of small towns just grabbing parts for my favorite weapons and the helicopters, destroying any targets along the way.yeah i know, i was just doing it wrong. i really liked this game for the first few hours and thought WHAHAY I'LL GET 100% IN THIS GAME and then I got to about 20% and wanted to smash my xbox and/or commit suicide. when i came to my senses i was way beyond the point necessary to unlock all the story quests.
Once I had all nine HQ's beaten I started running through the rest of the storyline. There's only about seven or eight main missions total.
There was always this feeling that BAD POLTICIAL SHIT was going on below the surface of the wasteland, something I've always found sort of typical for Fallout. I didn't really feel any of this in New Vegas.how?????
how? ??? ?I don't know, it felt like most major locations and factions were tied into the storyline in Fallout 3 so the in-game world was presented in a much more interesting and exciting way. I liked how the bigger factions were military, sort of presented as both secret and dangerous, and that the first encounters with them were usually segued into via scripted sequences in the storyline. You had the Super Mutants attacking Three Dog's radio station, the encounter with the Brotherhood of Steel in the DC ruins where they treated you like shit (as always in Fallout games) but reluctantly let you tag along until you got to know them better, and the Enclave propaganda that bombarded you from the get-go, letting you know that there was *some* kind of government that people either loved or despised for some reason, but you had absolutely no idea where they were, what they looked like or what their intentions were until the endgame when you attacked their base and found out that they were basically a huge, high-technological military organization hidden inside a big rock. Fallout 3 just had a really nice flow that I liked, and an insanely big and meticulously crafted world with tunnels, buildings, huge city ruins, creepy research stations and insane amounts of flavor places with their own quests and storylines that added a sense of realism to the game.
i would argue that there was actually TOO MUCH stuff like that in new vegas
I don't know, it felt like most major locations and factions were tied into the storyline in Fallout 3 so the in-game world was presented in a much more interesting and exciting way. I liked how the bigger factions were military, sort of presented as both secret and dangerous, and that the first encounters with them were usually segued into via scripted sequences in the storyline. You had the Super Mutants attacking Three Dog's radio station, the encounter with the Brotherhood of Steel in the DC ruins where they treated you like shit (as always in Fallout games) but reluctantly let you tag along until you got to know them better, and the Enclave propaganda that bombarded you from the get-go, letting you know that there was *some* kind of government that people either loved or despised for some reason, but you had absolutely no idea where they were, what they looked like or what their intentions were until the endgame when you attacked their base and found out that they were basically a huge, high-technological military organization hidden inside a big rock. Fallout 3 just had a really nice flow that I liked, and an insanely big and meticulously crafted world with tunnels, buildings, huge city ruins, creepy research stations and insane amounts of flavor places with their own quests and storylines that added a sense of realism to the game.well this is different then. in that other post you mainly were talking about the predominance of all the underhanded politics and things of that nature, which is pretty abundant in the game. almost nauseatingly so with the way the NCR are absolutely everywhere, perpetually doing something just underhanded enough for you not to really want to enthusiastically rally behind them. i don't really think there's any LACK of that kind of thing in this game, and i found the content of the political dispute to be quite a bit more interesting in this game than in other fallouts. if nothing else i appreciated how it didn't turn into this GOOD vs EVIL campaign like in every other fucking game ever.
The world of New Vegas however feels almost like Daggerfall - a huge stretch of land with random camps and cities strewn about, each looking like copy-pastes of each other with no real distinction. Also, almost instantly after you enter New Vegas you meet Yes Man who tells you about *every single faction in the game*, marks them on your map and literally asks you to come back to him once you've decided who you want to align yourself with. This effectively removes two of the most fun elements in a Fallout game - exploration and story. Isn't the whole discovering factions, getting to know them and choosing who to align with supposed to be handled through gameplay and not a single piece of dialog?
Everything about New Vegas just felt like a lazy way of throwing a lot of shit into the game without having to weave it into the storyline. It's too repetitive and there's no suspense, so that's why I found it boring I guess.
I ordered an Xbox360 today in order to BEGIN MY VOYAGE into the world of newgames though!! Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, and GTA4 AHOY!!!whahay! say goodbye to your personal life for a while :(
Don't forget Deadly Premonition! It's like if Twin Peaks were a video game with giant ghost dogs and squirrel keys.
but make sure to pick up deadly premonition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Premonition) eventually if you can!! part of me thinks you might find it as unusually HEART-WARMING as i didhahaha fuck you get out of my brain!!!!!!
in that other post you mainly were talking about the predominance of all the underhanded politics and things of that nature, which is pretty abundant in the game. almost nauseatingly so with the way the NCR are absolutely everywhere, perpetually doing something just underhanded enough for you not to really want to enthusiastically rally behind them. i don't really think there's any LACK of that kind of thing in this game, and i found the content of the political dispute to be quite a bit more interesting in this game than in other fallouts.Well every Fallout game needs at least one military or governmental faction, but it sort of bothers me how static and boring the NCR is. They are made up of a collection of camps run by demoralized soldiers who will either complain about stuff or ask you to go kill 10 Fire Ants. There are no exciting motives, quests, scripted events or skirmishes. Compare them to the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 3 who's purpose was to protect the surrounding cities, figure out what the Super Mutants were and where they come from, while also fighting off the Enclave. You really got to know them through at least 10 key characters and they took you across the wasteland in a lot of interesting and cool missions, and I have yet to see any of this in New Vegas.
but the sheer storytelling content of the scenarios themselves was of an unusually higher quality. maybe wasn't especially IDEAL as far as "game writing" goes, but by all other means of judging writing, i found new vegas to be an unusually strong example of quality writing that happened to appear in a game.I don't even know what to compare Fallout 3 to because it feels like New Vegas has no storytelling at all due to the reason I mentioned above. I haven't finished the game yet so maybe there's more stuff to come that I haven't seen, but can you remember any part of New Vegas that was actually engaging in terms of story/writing?
They basically feel like two completely different games where Fallout 3 is storydriven and New Vegas is more of a static sandbox game I guess.
Get Little Big Adventure 2 instead. ;-)
Get Little Big Adventure 2 instead. ;-)yeah man what an amazing game that is.
Well every Fallout game needs at least one military or governmental faction, but it sort of bothers me how static and boring the NCR is. They are made up of a collection of camps run by demoralized soldiers who will either complain about stuff or ask you to go kill 10 Fire Ants. There are no exciting motives, quests, scripted events or skirmishes. Compare them to the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 3 who's purpose was to protect the surrounding cities, figure out what the Super Mutants were and where they come from, while also fighting off the Enclave.while i'm not really going to try to argue that the NCR was particularly well done(i don't think it really was), i think this is a pretty large oversimplification. as far as i can see the major issue you're taking with the pure drama surrounding the NCR is that you don't see them fighting an awful lot. while i think this is valid, i don't think it's necessarily something which negates the value of what they bring to the game's story.
You really got to know them through at least 10 key characters and they took you across the wasteland in a lot of interesting and cool missions, and I have yet to see any of this in New Vegas.again, i think you've approached this game wrong, expecting them to do things that conflict with the core design of it. nobody takes you across the wasteland in this game. there are no KEY ALLIES. there are maybe like two or three characters in the entire game that aren't disgusting human beings. you don't really get to know anybody particularly well, because most people aren't really worth getting to know or simply have no reason to become involved in what you're doing.
I'm not arguing that there are no politics in New Vegas though. By bad political shit I meant that you always had a feeling that there were secret organizations running things behind the curtains in Fallout 3, and I thought that was an effective way to make the world feel bigger.I don't even know what to compare Fallout 3 to because it feels like New Vegas has no storytelling at all due to the reason I mentioned above.i'm not really seeing how there is an absence of story in new vegas. the game is lacking a clear GOAL at the end, but i don't necessarily think that's the only way to tell a story. the game is obviously more about minor narratives building up steam in the larger narrative rather than there being this primary THING that ultimately trumps everything you do. that isn't an invalid way to tell a story, although it certainly does make you work a little more for it.
I haven't finished the game yet so maybe there's more stuff to come that I haven't seen, but can you remember any part of New Vegas that was actually engaging in terms of story/writing?quite a few, actually. if you'd like i could suggest them to you.
They basically feel like two completely different games where Fallout 3 is storydriven and New Vegas is more of a static sandbox game I guess.i just don't see the fundamental distinction. i would actually call new vegas a lot more story-driven than fallout 3 was, mainly in that pretty much everything in the game is designed and laid out to service the story. there's really not a lot of RANDOM stuff in new vegas when you break it all down. there's this core of a couple ideas and the map/town/dungeon layout is geared almost solely to cater to that.
Get Little Big Adventure 2 instead. ;-)
The first time I played it I wrote The Kings off as tremendous douchebags and more or less ignored them. The second time though I wanted to get Rex which meant playing along with The Kings and in the end they were one of my favorite factions (although pretty minor) in the game.you know it is a totally ludicrous world when there are like only two small groups of decent people in the game and one of them is the elvis impersonators.
We don't seem to have spoiler tags anymore so I'll just have to say NEW VEGAS SPOILERS DON'T READ but one of the things that got me my second playthrough was that those ghoul cultists who launched rockets into space? I thought they were crazy and headed for a suicide mission anyway so I made their rockets crash into each other. I then went about my day not thinking much about this until at the end of the game I find out that the radiation from this crash forced the people of Novac to evacuate. I felt SO BAD about this, it was an entirely unintended thing and it isn't until way later that I even find out the consequences of my actions, but I felt that made it so much better of an experience.hahaha i didn't know that happened. in all my playthroughs i let them live out their wild dream out of pure PITY.
actually the funny thing about this is that in all of the other endings most(if not all) of the citizens of novac will get wiped out during the battle of hoover dam, so having them evacuate due to the radiation is probably actually one of the best ways to actually save them. novac is fucked either way.
the kings are completely rad, i loved that they modeled themselves after old elvis tapes that have since quit working and they don't even know his name. he's just this mythical figure from the past that is practically a god to them that they must model themselves after. i felt proud to be the first female king.hell yeah, the kings are the best. it's such a wonderfully absurd idea. an ELVIS CULT. it's such a perfect idea for this game.
hell yeah, the kings are the best. it's such a wonderfully absurd idea. an ELVIS CULT. it's such a perfect idea for this game.
i was honestly PUMPED when they let you join the kings at the end of the first quest, even though it really affects NOTHING in the game AT ALL. i had ZERO CAPS and really needed the free pass onto the strip too, but fuck that. i spent like the next five hours in the game marching around the wasteland going COMPLIMENTS OF THE KING MOTHERFUCKER(well ok not really but i REALLY wish i thought of that at the time; did wear the jacket for way too long afterward though)
I wore the jacket from the time I got it to the end of the game. So goddamn proud.:D
Yesssss, play using the King's moral system. This is brilliant.also pretty fun because probably most of the game is just WRECKING THE NCR'S SHIT, which is always an excellent use of time.
The best bit about the Kings is that even though they definitely weren't all GOOD SAMARITANS they were some of the most morally responsible people in the game. They were way more good guys than most of the groups. I mean I guess compared to like the people in Goodsprings they weren't but as far as the actual proper factions go they were the most likable.yeah, i'm pretty sure that's why i found the idea of them so easy to latch on to. it's this fucking terrible, disgusting world with a wide variety of dirtbags, but amongst the gang/military powers of the entire game, the shining light of decency and civility is the cult of elvis impersonators. that's just a beautiful idea.
is it normal for enemies to just slowly fade into sight as you're aiming in their direction or are my graphics set too low? I have a pretty good PER I think. I never played a fallout before (don't tell me which ones I should be playing first) but I am familiar with skill/ability systemsidk if it's because of your settings or stats or w/e but if you get ED-E the little ball robot as a buddy from primm (one of the first towns you go to) it gives you a perk that lets you see shit on your radar from super far
so it's not like the games where if you put too many points into a bad skill or set the wrong abilities the whole game is ruined and you'll barely be able to fend off a duergar without getting killednot at all. the only way you could really fuck up would be if you put all your points into EXPLOSIVES or something and then realize that you can't find grenades anywhere or just don't like using them. the only vague exception to this is if you REALLY WANT WHAT'S BEHIND DOOR #3 but your lockpick/science skill is total shit. OR if you pick a perk that you have absolutely no use for, but that's not really serious either since you get quite a few anyway. none of these could really negatively affect the game though.
so it's not like the games where if you put too many points into a bad skill or set the wrong abilities the whole game is ruined and you'll barely be able to fend off a duergar without getting killedSet your INT to 10 for skill points, don't set your STR, PER, END, or AGI below 5, pick either guns or energy weapons as the one weapon skill you'll raise to 100 and then focus on raising whichever non-weapon skills you want (but don't put points in Survival.)
Yesssss, play using the King's moral system. This is brilliant.started a KINGS playthrough last night. still figuring out the rules, but the first thing i did was sneak through quarry junction and run right to the king before doing anything. figuring this out as i go along, although i'll probably be skipping the quests that wouldn't be particularly appropriate.
I am starting a new New Vegas game in order to go with the King's playthrough idea and to finally try out hardcore mode. I'm still not entirely sure what my rules should be but the Kings try to stay peaceful (aside from Pacer) and are into chivalry so I suppose that's what I'm going to aim for. I'm going to try to get to them as quickly as possible in order to start their quests and also plan to get Rex asap too (I feel like this is a definite requirement for a proper King)
edit: Went through a list of Elvis songs to pick out a name for myself and I settled on KENTUCKY RAIN because lol it's me
Yeah, I'm guessing because they found the PSP "master keys" through the PS3. They've made utilities that can sign homebrew applications so you can boot them without custom firmware now. HEN can be run from the XMB on 3000s/GOs and everything else (including isos) can also be run. It's been a great year so far for the PSP scene.
Screwing around with a few things on PSP now that I can get isos to run on my 3000,Ive been trying to do this for months now, how did you do it? I can only run homebrew and plugins through an exploit. My psp's ofw 6.22 iirc.
Just got done Ghost Trick and then debated should I ruin the story for you with a 3 latter word.
sex
i haven't finished it btw i will be disappointed if there's not sex now
Really fucked off with Oblivion. The story is SO BORING.I really liked Oblivion. Actually, I initially hated it and thought it was fantasy garbage, so I went around killing people at random and got jailed like, three times before I was approached by a Dark Brotherhood member. If you're not familiar with them, they're sort of the evil faction of the game and if you kill an innocent person they'll approach you in your sleep with an initiation quest. If you accept their invitation you'll get to play the world from their perspective with complete disregard for the main storyline. It was the first questline I ever finished and I thought it was a pretty good way of catching bored players. It made the rest of the game way more tolerable, so if you haven't already I think you should try it before giving up on the game.
Might just skip it and play something good like Bioshock.
I beat Ghost Trick last night, it was pretty great. Seems like if they ever do a sequel they'll have to use entirely different characters, but that's not much of a problem really.
if you haven't already I think you should try it before giving up on the game.
Never could bring myself to go very far in the main questline, but the Dark Brotherhood quests are a cut above everything else. Why wasn't this much effort put into the rest of the game?I kept waiting for an expansion pack to come out that would continue the Dark Brotherhood missions. My dream never came true...
Also, Cactus Squid is still awesome (http://games.adultswim.com/hot-throttle-twitchy-online-game.html)
Aquaria. Holy shit did not expect this game to be so good. I basically picked it at random.
To those who have not played it, I fully recommend it!
I beat Bioshock, now I'm onto Bad Company 2's storyline.Prepare to be underwhelmed. Bad Company 2's story was meh. Then again, I played the first one's story and it was a lot better, so maybe my expectations were too high.
From what I heard, they tried to be too serious about the storyline for BC2... I mean, you can't be a "Modern Warfare 2"-killer with silliness.
crysis 2
GTA 4 all the way at the moment. I was obsessed with the PROFESSOR LAYTON series during my recent incapacitation, and now it has been replaced by driving around and doing bad things to various people.
It actually gets out a lot of RAGE. Plus the 'hero' is a lot deeper than GTA protagonists of previous generations. Like I genuinely feel for him and shit. Also for DWAYNE AND BRUCIE, who it is the best thing in the world that you can befriend them.
It was pretty much the reason I bought the 360 hermanos. I think I might be near the end of it, then on to LOST AND THE DAMNED and GAY TONY and shit. Good times.
lso travel time in both titles is pretty bad.
So yeah, I didn't encounter any of the bugs DS encountered in Crysis 2. You can still tell it's a beta. I'm most likely going to buy retail now though, I just wanted to see if my computer could run it.Yeah, some people are able to run it really well. That's the problem with it being a beta version though, I suppose it's not optimized to work on all computers and operating systems. I tried a few system.cfg tweaks I read to make it work but it didn't help.
You can get TAXI in GTA 4 - pretty cheaply too. Just press A and BAM, you're automatically at you're destination.This is true. I discovered this about an hour into the game.
Travel is only a chore if you WANT to do the drive!
All you guys with LittleBigPlanet 2 listen up
although i will give the dark brotherhood quest a chance before abandoning the game. a lot of people have said it's a cut above the rest of the soulless drivel in the game.yeah, the dark brotherhood questline is substantially better than anything else in oblivion that i've seen. it's still a fairly massive step back from really anything in fallout 3 or new vegas, but it's better than nothing i guess. although i'd probably like it more if the lockpick system weren't so damn unintuitive. losing thirty picks on one lock because you're a little tired isn't particularly fun.
Vell: Thanks for providing the exposition that Arcade seemed intent on not providing me with! Looks very interesting, but without someone saying it is worth playing I was hesitant to give up my precious, precious points. I will invest now maybes.
I've been loving my PS3.
I beat Uncharted 2 and played the multiplayer for a few days. Awesome game, totally going to do a Hard playthrough and plan to play more multiplayer whenever I feel like a multiplayer game. I love this game.
I beat Prince of Persia the other day. I actually really liked this game, even though it was short as fuck and I have no reason to play through it again. The graphics were great, and I enjoyed the gameplay. It's basically good old PoP on easy mode, but it was fun and innovative nonetheless. The environments are just gorgeous. I am playing all this on a SD TV so, when I get my LCD soon I'm going to play it again on a good screen, it'll be worth it (to me).
Started Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. This game OWNS. It's fucking beautiful and is amazingly fun. I fucking love Insomniac games, they are so good. I didn't get that far, to the end of the first star system or whatever. I will probably get more games from this series, at least I know i'll get the newest one that is coming out soon. This game rules, but I'm trying to break it up and not play ONE GAME ONLY until it's beat.
Also started Demon's Souls. Holy fuck, this game is awesome and obviously hard as shit. It controls really nicely though, and I'll probably play this here and there for a long time.
And finally, started a Final Fantasy XIII game last night. Again, totally beautiful game, just gorgeous in every way. Battles are fucking EZ-Mode even for lobotomized first graders, and this fucking Sazh guy is like the worst black-comedian stereotype ever. I like it though, I like the story so far (only like 4 hours in) and I really like FF12, so I'm sure I'll enjoy this game even though it's less of a game and more of a really long movie that is a little boring and you have to press buttons to keep watching it.
Also hey DDay thanks for accepting my friend request I don't have a mic and we might not ever play together but it's nice to have a friend :fogetsmile:
can't emphasize enough how much style this game has though
Anachronox. Haven't played this yet, very soon I will, but saw the movie of it. So I'll see how I do.
Hundley suggested I play this like years and years ago, and I went out and bought it back in 04/05. It's sat on my shelf for years though... :(Dude, Anachronox is the fucking shit. Like all games from the golden era of PC games (which I consider to be 1998-2004) how well it has aged is entirely subjective. Nevertheless, the story and humor alone make it a must-play. DO IT, DO IT NOW.
Update with some INFO about how fun it is when you play!!!
Just finished Stacking. It was kind of short but I also used a guide to find out what the side challenges were so I guess it would have been longer if I had figured that out myself. Even having beaten it so quickly I think it was still well worth my money and a very fun experience and I kind of want to make out with it a little bit.
I just played through Fallout 2 and experienced just about every bug the game is infamous for (dissapearing and randomly reappearing party members, and not having a Pip Boy the entire game being my favorites.) I really liked it though and laughed at my ending that basically told me how I didn't do a good enough job for 2 minutes.
I'm looking for a SRPG to play and I heard Valkria Chronicles was really easy so I'm thinking of some ps2 games like Disgaea or Stella Dues. Or maybe Valkrie Profile but that's more of an RPG I think.
hundley are you still playing oblivion? i started playing it, too. i never played that far into it, i always just skimmed the game because it seemed so flat and difficult to get into because it never felt like you were doing anything. i put some mods on it. it's better now.
i finally finished ghost trick the other day, and can safely say that missile is one of my favorite video game characters in YEARS. that li'l dog has serious heart. i finished ghost trick just in time to have it done before i got pokemon black, which is what i'm playing now (but i had a busy day yesterday and will probably be pretty busy today so i'm not too far into it yet!!!)
any Game Historians present: is Obsidian known for setting their goals unreasonably high and failing to achieve them in time?yeah, pretty much. they're really talented guys, but seem to have this knack of fucking everything up. i was afraid new vegas would leave me with this immense COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER feeling, but they just narrowly missed that i think.
hundley are you still playing oblivion? i started playing it, too. i never played that far into it, i always just skimmed the game because it seemed so flat and difficult to get into because it never felt like you were doing anything. i put some mods on it. it's better now.yeah, i'm still playing it off and on. kinda wish i could suggest great things to see in it, but there isn't a whole lot to do in the game that is really particularly worthwhile.
drive a horse??
Anybody who makes a game involving horses, but does not own any horses can only borrow experience from driving cars. And thus only make horse driving games as opposed to horse riding games.
It's pretty much expected in a horse game since game development and horse husbandry are disciplines that rarely ever cross over.
art direction is almost worse than origins
What on earth are you talking about. Origins didn't exactly have an art direction is just had a bad case of the drab. Dragon Age 2 has some semblance of actual design, and reasons why characters or environments look they way they are. The combat hasn't been dumbed down, either. It's been "sped up." There's isn't really a term for it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that dislikes Dragon age
Yeah, and now even a casual indirect comparison of FFXIII and Dragon Age II has turned me off from even trying that one in the first place.
Got Mafia II during the Steam sale a bit ago and just started playing a couple days ago. It might have an open world look to it, but not an open world feel. There doesn't seem to be very much to do between missions besides dropping off stolen cars at the junkyard or port.
Kind of dickish what happened at the very last scene.
That's the Mafia for you though.
jesus christ that N64 fog! turok nods enthuastically
I think there is an N64 emulator for PSP but I'm not sure how usable it is. I just remembered seeing a vid for one a while back.Yeah it can emulate some games at almost full speed with very little fuckups. Some graphical glitches seem to happen in Majora's Mask, which is the only one I've tested. It's completely playable though. Oh and the sound is really messed up for some games.
Crysis 2 pretty far into the SP but playing alot of MP and theres alot of issues that need to be fixed like...Random host,Noone getting full connection but the host and balancing issues.Yeah, multiplayer is bugged right now. Unofficial servers work perfectly so just filter them in the lobby and you can normally. Been playing multiplayer with rami and it's really fun. And single player campaign is the best FPS campaign I have played since Half-Life 2, it gets so awesome after the first third. There are some pretty annoying bugs though but it's still the best purchase since Uncharted 2 for me.
I tried playing crysis 2 but it gave me a headache because of all the megabytes (i'm a grampa apparently) and it wasn't that much fun. I played it on hardest difficulty like one of you finns told me to and it made it pretty hard to kill everything in places but still exceptionally easy to just stealth from cover to cover till you reach a checkpoint without killing anything at all. first person hider. very pretty tho if you're into thatI don't think it was that difficult but if it's too hard you can just play it on normal difficulty or veteran. And it starts to get a lot better once you get to the Lab Rat mission which is 5th mission in the game.
dwarf fortress B) what exciting stones / horrible creatures have you found at your embark site?Not much in terms of horrible creatures, I was using custom paramater things for my world for the tutorial I was following, so I could learn stuff without getting horribly slaughtered. I've started a new, proper world now though.
Beat Mass Effect.mass effect 2 is so much better than the first one too. most people i've talked to agree with this. i didn't even like the first one, but i ended up loving the second one. most of the things i strongly disliked about the first one were fixed in mass effect 2. crazy.
I went 100% Paragon.
I'll admit. I was kind of turned off to the game's initial play through and the side quests kind of sucked. but the story was good. Looking forward to also eventually playing 2 and when it releases, 3.
playing borderlands at the moment. part of me likes the game, part of me really dislikes it. the gameplay is definitely strong enough to justify playing it, but the presentation of the quests really really really feels like a cheap mmo shooter. it's irritating because i don't think it really needed to be like this. yeah, i understand that the cooperative play is a key part to the way the game is supposed to work, but i don't think that's ample justification for the single-player mode to be complete and utter trash. there could have been a better divide there, where you at least had some effort put into a main single-player quest that is separate from the cooperative play. as it is, it's almost jarring playing the game single-player and not seeing fellow mmo players bouncing around being generally annoying.!!! You would be a great salesman.
still, despite an awful presentation and way too much grinding for a single-player game, the way the game physically works is pretty fun. the design of the gameplay is unusually conducive to memorable fights, seemingly at random, which probably says a lot for the game i guess.
mass effect 2 is so much better than the first one too. most people i've talked to agree with this. i didn't even like the first one, but i ended up loving the second one. most of the things i strongly disliked about the first one were fixed in mass effect 2. crazy.
Just got dicked by my Minister of the Interior in Hidden Agenda. I picked him to focus on improving infrastructure but instead he just ignored the needs of anybody not formerly in the dictator's military. I guess I was just suppose to play truth and reconciliation with these guys because the rebels didn't do shit to protect me.aaaaa it's the minister of dickheads: raaaaaandy man bloodbath where ya been!! pal!! :fogetcrazy: what's going on brother, how is your life!
!!! You would be a great salesman.hahhaha you whelp i am going to take this as an insult!!!
play stacking.sorry I only have a pc.
Man, I can't wait for that to come out on PC
played the flash version of the room (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307)Dear god...
excellent game. the ending is worth playing through the game to see.
Playing Spiral Knights now that it's released. I'm really enjoying it apart from the fact that I have to stop playing after two or three hours and wait a whole day before playing again.Buy crystal energy then? It's only 2.5k crowns right now and considering that you gain at least 4k on a full tier 1 run, energy is not an issue yet.
red. dead. redemption.
this game is awesome.
It was fun, but shit, it was one of the hardest games I've played. difficult to the point of headaches at times.You are gonna love Exoddus.
i'm playing mass effect 2 because hundley and alex hiatt said it was good. i think it is okay so far. i might divulge more intimate details at a later date.......................maybe not. that's up to me. that's at my discretion, motherfuckers.BULLSHIT YOU MUST TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU WORM
You are gonna love Exoddus.It even harder?
never fast travel anywhere, you'll always run into pretty fun little miniquests when you just ride around between cities and missionsYeah i've only fast traveled twice: once with a stagecoach just to see what's it like, and once with a campsite because it was 2am and I needed to get back to my house. I played for a while last night and got some new guns and shit, and between stumbling on a bunch of wild animals and shooting and skinning them all, random ? people giving me quests and fucking banditos harassing me, this game just sucks me in. I'm sure at some point the novelty will wear off, but I'm still just fucking dumbfounded by how awesome everything looks and how good it feels to just ride off into the brush.
I'm playing Alpha Protocol. I don't know where all the bad reputation it has came from, it's pretty much great and I haven't run into any major bugs.
Yeah i've only fast traveled twice: once with a stagecoach just to see what's it like, and once with a campsite because it was 2am and I needed to get back to my house. I played for a while last night and got some new guns and shit, and between stumbling on a bunch of wild animals and shooting and skinning them all, random ? people giving me quests and fucking banditos harassing me, this game just sucks me in. I'm sure at some point the novelty will wear off, but I'm still just fucking dumbfounded by how awesome everything looks and how good it feels to just ride off into the brush.
I played a bit of multiplayer too and that seems pretty fun.
It even harder?Exoddus is probably as long if you just run past everything and save no mudokons but if you don't then maybe 2x to 3x as long. (There are 300 Mudokons in this one, but you now have the ability to have a group follow you instead of just one at a time.)
EDIT: Also, how long would you say it is? it took me 21 hours to beat the first one (according to steam, so there might be some idle time in there)
it's such an incredible game. i spent like an entire summer playing it when it first came out and managed to get like 197 mudokons. jesus christ it's difficultYeah I think I understated just how difficult it is even when compared to Oddysee. It's not just some areas. Like every single secret level is a 8-10 on the difficulty scale, even the ones at the start of the game. And sometimes Mudokons get killed while you're simply trying to survive, and yet there's a way to save all of them.
Yeah I think I understated just how difficult it is even when compared to Oddysee. It's not just some areas. Like every single secret level is a 8-10 on the difficulty scale, even the ones at the start of the game. And sometimes Mudokons get killed while you're simply trying to survive, and yet there's a way to save all of them.
Brilliant game, definitely one of the very best of the PSX era, and it's too bad so few platformers of this type are being made these days.
HD remake
On January 31, 2011, Oddworld Inhabitants confirmed that a HD remake of Abe's Oddysee is being developed by UK studio, Just Add Water. The remix is described by series creator Lorne Lanning as "basically Abe's Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer," stating the developers "are not trying to reinvent any wheels." The game is scheduled to come out in early 2012, confirmed recently by Just Add Water on Twitter. No formats have been announced as of yet.[49]
they're apparently remaking abe's oddyseeI am pretty much AGAINST REMAKES but this one might be neat I guess.
that's weird. i'm playing red dead redemption just now and i'm getting portal 2, as well.
rdr is okay, i was kind of surprised at how...soft, it is when i first started playing but now i'm starting to maybe get a little bored of it. it does look really good, i like to ride around on a horse in the game.
Started replaying Link's Awakening and by far the best Zelda game f*ck all of you who say otherwise forever.
i say otherwise all the time
Just beat Mass Effect again, this time with FemShep.
are you another fucking tranny?
Link's Awakening was the first Zelda game I actually played all the way through by myself, no internet or anything like that. At the time I didn't really have access to the internet, though I did occasionally. Such a great game.
are you another fucking tranny?playing games with female characters makes you a tranny. interesting.
Link's Awakening was the first Zelda game I actually played all the way through by myself, no internet or anything like that. At the time I didn't really have access to the internet, though I did occasionally. Such a great game.
God damn't you guys just play portal 2 and that will end your senseless bickering about link games as you develop a new love called portal 2
maybe you've given up and want to sink into a black hole but i don't like this kind of talk, or a lot of the drunk snookie fucking stuff you say.
edit: actually i don't know you. you spend half of your life on a ship. why are you crass and ignorant so often, though.
it was a joke reference to the tranny topic and people choosing videogame characters based on gender identification. I don't know? Why are you so overly sensitive and politically correct all the time? you know the world generally isn't like that? its full of people saying stupid shit you don't agree with or like hearing and theres not shit you can do about it. I do not mean ill will but I'll say what the hell I want to."the world is like this; nobody else is sensitive; there's nothing you can do; i'll say whatever i want". are you fucking kidding me? what's your age dude? dafas actually yeah go fuck yourself and sink as low as you want but you have no fucking right to belittle jamie like that, especially when it's outright, exaggarated lies you want to confirm. i'm pretty disapointed with you.
i never played portal but rami bought portal 2 for me because he wants to play co-op and i have to say it's p.great. i haven't played co-op yet though but we'll get to that tonight or tomorrow.
you know the world generally isn't like that? its full of people saying stupid shit you don't agree with or like hearing and theres not shit you can do about it. I do not mean ill will but I'll say what the hell I want to.
i never played portal but rami bought portal 2 for me because he wants to play co-op and i have to say it's p.great. i haven't played co-op yet though but we'll get to that tonight or tomorrow.It's more satisfying than they overexhausted formula of walking around rooms and shooting people.
i am so excited for when portal 2 goes down to $10 and i can buy it without feeling like i threw away a lot of money on a game that will be probably kinda fun but absolutely not worth FEATURE LENGTH GAME moneysbut its a feature length game
Also (completely off-topic): There are a lot of people who have shown great levels of intolerance in the past having a go at Farren here.Umm elaborate please.
:talktothehand:
When you insult someone the usual response is not to say "heh... welcome to the world" but to apologize. If you don't understand that then yes maybe you have been on that boat for too long.
but its a feature length game
About 0.5 bioshocks in length I would say.this. and bioshock is pretty much JUST BARELY long enough to really justify spending that much.
Edit; Ok 0.65 bioshocks.
It makes sense when you remember that she'd just woken up from experimental surgery designed to save her life. The perfect opportunity for the Illusive Man to make his newest agent more pleasing to look at.
But that initial section of just trying to figure out what was going on was something I liked a whole lot. I think it's also what I liked about Bat Castle (http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=82405.0) and uh maybe some nifflas games to a lesser extent.metroidvanias
what's really stupid is sometimes the soldiers will shout out "RELOADING!!!!!!!!!" and I'm like really, you have to shout that? Who's going to complain at your because your reloading... Is Joe from 4th squad going to be like "Hey man, what the hell? What are you doing, reloading?" maybe it's because I'm playing easy(too lazy to challenge myself) and it's so you know who to shoot while they reload, but you can never tell where it's coming from... honestly do they really yell that during a shoot out IRL in the army(sorry if they actually do don't want to offend people)
I would presume this is so that their allies know to cover them while they reload.
Also what's really stupid is sometimes the soldiers will shout out "RELOADING!!!!!!!!!" and I'm like really, you have to shout that? Who's going to complain at your because your reloading... Is Joe from 4th squad going to be like "Hey man, what the hell? What are you doing, reloading?" maybe it's because I'm playing easy(too lazy to challenge myself) and it's so you know who to shoot while they reload, but you can never tell where it's coming from... honestly do they really yell that during a shoot out IRL in the army(sorry if they actually do don't want to offend people)they do teach you to shout when you're reloading/out of ammo in army to let your partner(s) know.
My parents got me need for speed underground 2 as a gift back when it came out, and I actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit despite not really being into cars or racing games. being able to pick a car, fully customize it, and drive it around the city/participate in races and competitions was pretty fun the way they designed it. a couple months a go I read about some other need for speed titles and some other street racing series, but none of them particularly appealed to me. nfs carbon might be okHuh, I thought I had replied. I remember typing up a reply anyway.
I'm replaying Majora's Mask on my Wii right now. Good shit. Gooooood shit.
I can't believe this game came out a decade ago.
I should also mention that perhaps my greatest flaw as a person is my strange obsession with zelda games, which I think is actually a reflection on an inability to grow up.Adults are just taller children.
idk which of these have a free drive mode, but that's a prereq for me. not too interested in crime or police chases or things like that
NFS: Carbon is pretty bad actually. (I've played it)
The Need for Speeds that I've heard are good:
-NFS 1, 2, 3, and 4 (The classic series, I personally only enjoyed 3 and 4, the first 2 have aged poorly)
-Hot Pursuit 2 and Hot Pursuit 2010 (The fantasy sports car vs police with a very Burnout aesthetic)
-Underground 1, 2 and Most Wanted (street racing, crime oriented)
-Shift 1 and 2 (NFS's Sim series, was originally meant to be a separate series, NFS name tacked on to garner more attention)
idk which of these have a free drive mode, but that's a prereq for me. not too interested in crime or police chases or things like thatUnderground 2 did (which you played) I'm pretty sure Underground 2 was the first with a open world map. I would imagine Most Wanted would as well because it also had an open world map. I don't remember if carbon did. Undercover probably does. NFS: World obviously does.
portal 2 gets a lot more interesting after you're done with the test chambers, i guess hundley didn't play that far? it's a shame it takes 5 chapters though, the first hours are way too monotone even though many of the puzzles are pretty great. i'm enjoying portal 2 (i'm in chapter 6) but i'm not nearly as impressed by it as some of you guys seem to be.yeah but then you just get to CAVE JOHNSON'S TEST CHAMBERS and after that you get to WHEATLEY'S TEST CHAMBERS neither of which are really fundamentally different from what i've seen. just mild variations on a theme. actually i found the test chambers preferable, as the parts when you're out in the open were pretty much just hunting and pecking as you try to find the one space you are required to place portals to proceed.
i'm just having a wee shot of final fantasy 13 for a minute because i played this last year and i remember just enjoying how baffling a lot of it was, why the heck would anyone make the decisions the makers of this game would make? anyway it's still really funny, if you're in the right mood for it.ahhaha jamie are you sure. are you sure you want to complete that game or even waste hours on it? you see jamie, your post tempted me to check some cuts of the gameplay from youtube. before i knew, i was watching the walkthrough of it. i never guessed that i would watch all of it. it's been two days now. i finished now at 2 am. are you really sure you want to do it? 'cos it's gonna take longer. it's gonna be hella boring and nothing in the game makes sense. can you do it - private jamie?
i like that snow walks alone down a wartorn path and mumbles things like 'we're the only hope these people have...' and 'Heroes don't need a plan!' over and over again to himself. cool. he seems totally insane. i think this game is a little endearing to me because of the specifically vacant and mathematically predictable way it is insane. i'm not going to play any other jrpgs to get a sense of or marvel at this kind of thing, because this one just takes all of that ridiculous shit and rolls it up for you into a big stinking, glossy ball.
seriously, i'm not saying i like it. or maybe i am. i don't even know anymore. playing this just seems too crystalize something about all of this area of media/entertainment. like playing it makes me want to make some overblown flash cartoon where you take all of the elements present here and chop them up into even more incoherent, garbled parts while introducing stuff that SHOULD seem out of place but probably won't because nothing makes sense at all.
there's a shop. you buy potions there. it's called 'unicorn mart'. another piece of the ubiquitous, rancid debris that we are swimming in. we are swimming in it.
Ahahaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHomEmObc-w
Same here.
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In addition to this solid gold vault, I also worked on a tower of glass.
Grab your tools and go! You can do many things in Terraria: make weapons and fight off a variety of enemies in numerous biomes, dig deep underground to find accessories, money, and other useful things, gather wood, stone, ores, and other resources to create everything you need to make the world your own and defend it. Build a house, a fort, even a castle, and people will move in to live there and perhaps even sell you different wares to assist you on your journey. But beware, there are even more challenges awaiting you... Are you up to the task?sounds like minecraft if notch etc had any sort of ambition/weren't such dopes
Sure.
man been surprizingly absorbed into Sega nad Three Ring's Spiral Knights! (www.spiralknights.com)
Pop on n send me a msg I'm 'Aerfloe'
Is Terraria worth buying, it kind of looks like a 2d version of minecraft. Steam have it for 5.99 which isnt that bad of a price.
almost finished the new vegas DLC honest hearts. the new location was fairly interesting, but it's not otherwise that noteworthy. it's not unpleasant to get through or anything, and it's a good environment to just wander around, but i didn't feel like they really filled the environment up particularly well, nor did they make the story interesting. there's a SPOILER character in there that they built up throughout the game to be interesting and dynamic that doesn't manage to be even a little stimulating. the story is just boring. profound disappointment considering how much effort had gone into dead money.I'm playing it now. I didn't play Dead Money because it didn't sound interesting to me, but you're saying it's good/better?
i'd suggest staying away unless you really want more shit to do in new vegas, or can get it for free/discounted or something.
yes, terraria is a really good game. ive been playing the heck out of it!!
we're working on getting a server up, and right now ren has a hamachi server available. i think he posted it somewhere here on the forums, but join IRC and lets play together!
I'm playing it now. I didn't play Dead Money because it didn't sound interesting to me, but you're saying it's good/better?dead money can be pretty irritating at times, but i think it's a lot better than honest hearts. in dead money they really tried to make something that kinda tangentially fits into fallout but doesn't really feel much like fallout. it's pure survival horror, basically, but done better than pretty much anyone has done it for a long time.
I expected the DLC to be like new vegas, but more cohesive and complete. dunno if that's the case so far.the two out are pretty cohesive and complete, but neither are really like new vegas. both go in wildly different thematic directions and present locations that are fundamentally different than what's in the rest of the game(particularly dead money). i have appreciated that about the dlcs thus far, though. shows that they're actually thinking about this and not just copy/pasting the same shit from the main game.
Bowel Movement sure is chattyif you're talking about who i think you're talking about, the characters later get worse/more uninteresting.
edit that's not supposed to be a joke I'm just avoiding spoilers
did they raise the level cap on either of the DLCs? Cus I'm already on lvl 24 at the game itself and I dunno if I wanna keep playing when I max out I'm hoping I can get through the main story before getting too far past 30 not lvling up is boring as fuck.i don't know if i'm just fiercely pragmatic but i found that i hit the dlc level cap pretty much just as i finished the dlc itself. they do a pretty good job of giving you lots of room to screw around before you reach the cap, so as long as you're not spending hours upon hours trying to genocide the local gecko populations, you should be good.
IF YOU DON'T FINISH FALLOUT FROM START TO FINISH WEARING JUST A LEATHER JACKET AND KNUCKLE-DUSTER IT'S NOT A FUCKING FALLOUT!!truth.
IF YOU DON'T FINISH FALLOUT FROM START TO FINISH WEARING JUST A LEATHER JACKET AND KNUCKLE-DUSTER IT'S NOT A FUCKING FALLOUT!!
they need to raise it by fifty I lvl up really fast. I even stopped getting all the perks which make you lvl faster. I just really like shooting and unlocking shit. I'm a ncr sharpshooter guy this time I think next time I play it I'll be a boxer/melee dude that seconds in pistols that'd be cool.never take any of the level up or experience perks!! stay weak and destitute
apparently if your int is even lower you get a lot of different dialogue options, so maybe I'll try that next
fallout is different now. these days it's all about beating the game wearing grimy pre-war businesswear and a 9mm. that's a different cool though. back in the day you kinda had to create STRAPPING YOUNG LAD/LASS but my new vegas character was a creepy old man that nobody liked, complete with gray hair and a combover. not as cool as being able to play through the game as FULL RETARD thoughORRRRR a chinaman wearing a pyjama (vault suit), a red baseball cap and a baseball bat (cork gun or whatever it's called as alternative) with the blessed birthname HIDEO KOJIMA. Finish. THE. GAAAAAME!!!! / Will you finish the game ... or the game finish YOU?
apparently if your int is even lower you get a lot of different dialogue options, so maybe I'll try that next
woah i didn't know that. i'm gonna try this.NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS IN NEW VEGAS
Someone play Spiral Knights with Me! :<
I'll help someone out, like get ya a starting Armor or a Sword ( First person to actually PLAY with me from SW! )
Games pretty fun for a time killing dungeon crawling !
Join up on the game and send a friend Request to 'Aerfloe' in a msg, say SW and your SW name. If we sync up online i can help ya out n we can do a few runs!
I got 1 IRL friend who plays but its rare we can sync up cause he is out west and works late (till about 4am my time) so we dont get to play often.
My roommate got Portal 2 on the 360 and we played through the co-op campaign and I played through the single-player. It's pretty neat, I'm glad it's longer than #1, though it's still fairly short, I mean all you do is go from room to room solving puzzles so, I guess that's about all I expected. Seeing aperture labs from the 60s or whatever was a pretty cool touch. Actually im right at the end of the single player, I have like 3 or 4 rooms from wheatley then whatever happens at the end, i don't know that, but I did look up how many puzzle rooms were left and its only a couple. I played it for like 6 hours though so I got burned out. Neat game but not worth 60 bucks or wahtever, I'll probably buy it when its 30 or less, just to have it. My brother for instance hasn't played either Portal games.
playing Resonance of Fate. I've been stuck on the first fucking boss for 2 hours now. The battle system doesn't make sense the way it does in other rpg games. Somehow I always endup reaching "condition critical" and my characters become panzies and start shivering and cant even attack. I've checked out a walkthrough and its still confusing as hell lol.
Someone play Spiral Knights with Me! :<
I'll help someone out, like get ya a starting Armor or a Sword ( First person to actually PLAY with me from SW! )
Games pretty fun for a time killing dungeon crawling !
Join up on the game and send a friend Request to 'Aerfloe' in a msg, say SW and your SW name. If we sync up online i can help ya out n we can do a few runs!
I got 1 IRL friend who plays but its rare we can sync up cause he is out west and works late (till about 4am my time) so we dont get to play often.
Minecraft. Finally bothered to try multiplayer for the first time. playing on some random servers realized that the only one that's updated to the current version is laggy as hell. went back to single player.Pretty much every respectable Minecraft server relies on a plugin called Bukkit. Bukkit hasn't been updated for the newest version of Minecraft because the newest version of Minecraft is an unstable piece of shit. So most servers are down for the count at the moment.
also the reason you go in to that condition critical is because you ran out of a shards did you notice when you kill or destroy a enemy they drop shards .
I only have 3 shard slots. And the enemies are gone its just the boss himself. No matter how much shit i put into him he walks around and heals. I guess I'll just grind and lvl up before I attempt to face him again.it probably has something to do with your strategy, then. the game has a pretty dramatic learning curve, but once you really get the hang of it you'll very rarely find any battle is impossible. i'd suggest just going to the arena and screwing around for a while there until the game starts making sense to you. specifically, you'll want to learn how to effectively perform a tri-attack, since that's literally what you'll do in every battle for the rest of the entire game. the game does a pretty poor job of making that clear, and a friend of mine who played it had more or less the same problem.
I know it sounds bad but I'm actually learning a lil bit about boxing approach from playin it. Like how to dig in and rib shot the fuck out of someone or stay outside and throw light jabs. Its a fun way to further familiarize myself with boxing without starting a fight with someone and possibly going to jail again :(If that is what you want then have you perhaps heard of the manga called Hajime No Ippo? I think you should check it out, it's full of stuff about boxing details............
it probably has something to do with your strategy, then. the game has a pretty dramatic learning curve, but once you really get the hang of it you'll very rarely find any battle is impossible. i'd suggest just going to the arena and screwing around for a while there until the game starts making sense to you. specifically, you'll want to learn how to effectively perform a tri-attack, since that's literally what you'll do in every battle for the rest of the entire game. the game does a pretty poor job of making that clear, and a friend of mine who played it had more or less the same problem.
not a lot of people really agree with me, but i think resonance of fate is a pretty fun game when you really get into it. nothing is brilliant, or really that singularly worthwhile about it all, but it goes pretty far out of its way to be different from games of this nature. it's a strange experience.
playing Resonance of Fate. I've been stuck on the first fucking boss for 2 hours now. The battle system doesn't make sense the way it does in other rpg games. Somehow I always endup reaching "condition critical" and my characters become panzies and start shivering and cant even attack. I've checked out a walkthrough and its still confusing as hell lol.
Try having your Machine gun user run up first (don't jump, as you can focus fire on one section) and fire on the side without a shield. Two or three attacks should scratch the whole side. After that have either of your handgun users run and jump to break that section. If you broke the section, great if not you'll probably need to restart the fight.I say jump at the end because it give you more time that's how I played the game and it worked fine for me the first boss was cake for me and the 2nd was easy too but the 3rd is when most rookies get stuck.
The only real way to prevent condition critical is to plan to have an enemy with a breakable part, so you can restore your bezels
i got the gamecube from my brother and started an Ocarina of Time game last night. OOT is probably one of the best, if not the best video game ever.I've been playing it again, too. I think Wind Waker is better than it though. Cleaner dungeon design, better / more side quests / link is more humanised / zelda is less of a princess figure. Doubt that either is the best game ever, but they are my favourites.
I've been playing it again, too. I think Wind Waker is better than it though. Cleaner dungeon design, better / more side quests / link is more humanised / zelda is less of a princess figure. Doubt that either is the best game ever, but they are my favourites.
are you...against that?
actually i guess it is more likely you don't know a partial version of it leaked.
So PSN is giving 2 free games (because they are idiots with security, basically) and I got Little Big Planet because I never played it but I always wanted to, but I also know that the "community" aspect which is supposedly the best part wouldn't really interest me that much. I played DDay's level for instance and that was cool, but I can't imagine just playing random people's levels unless they are super-high-rated or something. Anyway the game is pretty neat, I can see why it's a fan favorite. Actually now that I think about it playing other people's worlds is actually cool and fun, but I have literally 0 interest in building anything. I decorated my POD with like mushrooms and that's it and I don't really care it change it at all.
Are you getting any other games? Because I'm getting LBP since I never got around to buying/playing it and I don't know anything about the other options for my second game.That's the reason I got LBP. I already have Infamous and the super stardust game is only like 10 bucks normally so between Dead Nation and Wipeout I'm probably going to pick Dead Nation because I don't imagine I'll play wipeout that much. I really wish they had ModNation racers because I really want that one but I don't want to buy it.
That's the reason I got LBP. I already have Infamous and the super stardust game is only like 10 bucks normally so between Dead Nation and Wipeout I'm probably going to pick Dead Nation because I don't imagine I'll play wipeout that much. I really wish they had ModNation racers because I really want that one but I don't want to buy it.
So I dunno. I just watched some reviews on youtube to see how i felt about them and I think Dead Nation is what I'll end up with.
That's the reason I got LBP. I already have Infamous and the super stardust game is only like 10 bucks normally so between Dead Nation and Wipeout I'm probably going to pick Dead Nation because I don't imagine I'll play wipeout that much. I really wish they had ModNation racers because I really want that one but I don't want to buy it.
Dude yeah, ModNation Racers is a game that I really really want but only in the sense that I really want it without buying it. It's not something I'd buy over any other game but if I could get it for free I'd play the shit out of it.
I finally played and finished Barkley, Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden
hahahah what the fuck
the first tomb raiders are good. I played the first two ps2 ones two, including the remake of the first game, and I remember them being pretty good too. far better at creating an interesting environment, a sense of exploration, and utilizing 3-dimensional space than something like New Vegas, for example. disregarding what's obvious about these games, I mean
that's a coincidence, i just replayed it today for the first time in a while. i still like it a lot but this time what hit me was the ridiculous amount of rpg detail throughout the whole game, like the little pool shaped like a cross in kobe bryants tomb or suddenly realising that the song that plays after you beat jordan is a slowed-down midi version of 'sweet georgia brown'.
anyway i'm playing the original tomb raider game now. d-don't judge me.. if jamie can watch the x files for some background feeling of weird mysteries then i can play tomb raider to wander around strangely textured lo-res crypts filled with awkwardly shambling yetis and dinos...
the controls are annoying, especially the jump stuff, but i kind of like the strange level design. the first level is filled with really jarring and obvious holes and corridors in places you can't get to but think maybe you could if you tried, or strange floor angles made of packed ice, and lots of nooks and crannies that don't do anything. the movement/jumping stuff makes it more of a chore to navigate through than it has to be but it still feels uh distinctly unlike any other game environment made of just crisscrossing paths and so on. maybe thats just me or there's a ton of games which did it better which i haven't played but i can't think of much offhand aside from like isolated moments in n64 shadows of the empire icelevels or something. also idk strange open spaces of sudden carefully detailed lowpoly vine/shrub textures in a ruined temple/cavern place. narrow corridors suddenly opening up to huge + weirdly elaborate multileveled rooms. theres a continuing sense of it being just a little stranger and more evocative than it really should, considering.
what is so great about the witcher?
You guys should of got infamous as one of your free games, it's a fun game.
Anyway I finishing up Okami and then I'm gonna start playing persona 4 for the first time.
Free games? did I miss something?
PSN got hacked and was done for a few months, sony halfheartedly made up for this with a free month of playstation + for everybody plus 2 select games at no cost.
Really?
So if I take my ps3 out of the box and reconnect it, I'll be entitled to these free games also? or was there some sort of time limit to apply for them?
I've been enjoying L.A. Noire. Feels like a game that would result if Grand Theft Auto had a baby with Heavy Rain. It's awesome.
Steam Sale, Hydrophobia Prophecy, $3, worth it? I already have a crap load of games, and this wasn't on my to buy list. but $3 is pretty good for I can see of the game. Wondering if anyone here has tried it?I watched some gameplay movies and decided that it looks a bit dated and that I'd rather have an expensive pint of beer.
bought Chrono Trigger on the virtual console and been playing that... and man I must have some kind of deep rooted childhood attachment to that game because every time I hear that freakin' world map song for 1,000 AD I feel like crying... probably has to do with playing the shit out of the game as a little kid.
now that I paid like $8 for it, hopefully another chrono game magically appears from the heavens.
They did and it's called let's not make it true to the game at all and fuck it up. FYI they pulled that formula off quite well.
just imagine what Bioware would do with the millenial fair... or the court trial. all the choices and decisions you could make... paragon or renagade, shep- er crono?I really like this idea actually, maybe not necessarily Bioware part, but I could imagine a game where Crono has to decided between saving the world from lavos while doing minimal 'damage' to the time stream(the paragon) or taking out lavos while also changing the past to try to make the world a better place in the present(the renegade).
I started playing Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. The speech system is pretty bad and I would like a few more hints to help with quests, but overall it's fun playing an RPG that looks like Doom.
the ratchet and clank games are fuckin awesome!
I've spent all morning trying to get this working on my pc, when it comes to DOS im completely useless. I've given up...Just download Dosbox, and drag the Dagger.bat file onto the Dosbox icon.
I've spent all morning trying to get this working on my pc, when it comes to DOS im completely useless. I've given up...Kids these days.
What about hard rain? is the story atleast more interesting? I've looked for it a few times but I can never find it anywhere.
Robopon. It's awesome
I could of told you that but sadly when you hit dead lock it will test if you are true fan of R&CHeh I don't think deadlock even got released in Australia but after beating a Crack in Time I need to go buy the other 2 PS3 R and C titles along with MGS4,God of War 3 and Killzone 3 but I'l have to work a bit more if I want to get them any time soon :(
I had (idk where it went) Robopon for the GBC. It had that cool infrared thing where you could get items from pointing remotes and shit at the cartridge but I never got it to work.
I'm trying to get into the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup roguelike! I like it! I've had it installed for ages but it was only when I replayed the tutorial and was told to Press [C] To Cut Orc... You Started Dismembering The Orc... You Dismembered The Orc... +2 Orc Flesh Gained... Eat Orc Flesh Y/N that I started getting really excited about it. Right now I am a Mummy Chaos Knight and I brutally murdered a bunch of Kobolds and an Ooze and sacrificed the bodies to my dark god in exchange for bloodpowers. I have a bunch of scrolls and one of them put a curse on my weapon which is maybe a good thing since it kills everything almost instantly now.I always want to play mummies (especially since they don't have to eat) but they're so frail and flammable that it's extremely tough.
Does anyone know if ADOM is worth checking out too btw because I've heard it's kind of crazier which is maybe what I want?? Don't suggest Dwarf Fortress because I'm... I'm not ready yet...
As for ADOM, I dunno. I've actually been meaning to try it too, but ASCII roguelikes make my eyes hurt so fuckin much aaaaa. Also the learning curve looks really goddamn steep (like every roguelike in the history of ever) and I don't really think I'm willing to invest that much time into figuring out all the dumb esoteric tricks that are basically 100% required to win (which always seem to exist in roguelikes).motherfucker. you just don't have any soul it seems!! fucking bitches and letter rogualikes, that's the true young man's world fucker!! i think i'd... if i want to make a technical wordl (like acutally bother making a game like that in a uh game sense. ACTUAL GAME) i'd make a letter rogualike... somehow imbue the zelda 64 and chinese bootleg sense of uh world/goofiness/peace. i think it's important. fuck ladies and play rogualikes. maybe in roguelikes you should be able to fuck. them. bitches- idk im just goofposting (and bit aggravated by your apathy to letter roguelikes, you just dont have any soul it seems) but i really liked the mental image of sexy young men living extreme lifestyles partying at nights in rhodes and playing roguelikes intesively in the evenings and talking like it's cool with your bros.
Mr Keuner ran into Mr Muddle, a great fighter against newspapers. ‘I am a great opponent of newspapers. I don’t want any newspapers’, said Mr Muddle. Mr Keuner said ‘I am a greater opponent of newspapers. I want better newspapers.’
guana were you countin that your post would change the page/override my post... youre in a dangerous territory mate....
the bonzi post and guana's frog pic are the "yin & yang" of gameschat on this forum it seems... also rami i'd advise against looking at the goldeneye wii remake in the article thread / seeing whatever else dumb shit game developers get up to when they actually have the tools to realise their ridiculous action movie fantasies rather than making crazy vague systematic representations of same... instead review the powerful words of 'beat' takashi and listen to this fine, firm song:Yeah i figured i'd want to stay away from the actual realizations of the games like we've spoken. you can always just play adom and nethack like You've Never Meant It ( ??? what i mean exactly with this: we might never get to know...) ergo/aka learn the controls learn basic mechanisms and so forth but yeah im pretty sure youd have to play a pretty long time until the thing becomes too clear. wish there was less grinding parts at times and more ridicilous dangerous situations (YOU WALK ON A LEVER! YOU ARE DROPPED DOWN 20 LEVELS DOWN!!!! (ahhaha i think this is actually real from nethack. marge told me something similiar to this...) YOU SEE A GREATER MOLOCH, DORN'S BEAST AND A GIBBERLING MOUTHER!!! YOU FEEL AS YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG... THE ROOM SMELLS LIKE CARROTS!! ALL OF SUDDEN A BLINK DOG APPEARS! BLINK DOG APPEARS [gentle]! BLINK DOG SUDENDLY DISAPEARS! YOU HEAR A SILENT CROAK *iceberg* IN YOUR HEAD! (yeah this is real, adom) SUDENDLY MOLOCH BECOMES FRIENDLY! MOLOCH CASTS [unidentified ][/unidentified]! YOUR HEAR A GROAN IN THE DISTANCE AS YOUR ALIGNMENT SHIFTS! we can go on with this forever but yeah sometimes goofy stuff can happen before ya know AND the same time. i still remember fondly how i was walking through a room i had walked dozens times and all of sudden quickling king appears and attacks... and all of sudden the whole fucking was filled with quicklings and quickling kings and i stare the room astonished & mouth open, not believing how i died so easily & so randomly that time. a single fond teardrop appears at rami's eyecorner...
anyway i'll probably check out ADOM and NetHack!! right now i'm less interested in actually completing roguelikes than i am in dying in ridiculous ways / playing a Berserk Kobold and gaining permanent +6 Affinity To Sludge from drinking murky red potions etc... i finally played the Tales Of Game's Sewer Goblet game last night and even though i liked it what really impressed me was the feeling that "serious" roguelikes were probably if anything even weirder and more ridiculous than a game where the wu tang clan explores a treacherous sewer filled with teknodwarves...
I finished Flashback last night. Quality game.im immediately vary if this is some kind of indie game but if we are talking about the another world-style platform-action game made by delphine software? or whatever then yeah. It owns a lot. its not as artsy as the eric chaci's game but i am kind of fond of all the esthetics of the game? and the level of animation and the unique, vector 3d animation at cutscenes. the music helllllll yeah. i mean i watched my big brother/uncle played this along with Syndicate and these games were Scifi with big S for me as a kid and pretty impactful/strong experiences as esthetics go? the level of grit(ty futurism)...
that new dungeon siege game which I had to buy because blockbuster didn't have enough copies to rent.
its already better than final fantasy 13
Final Fantasy XII. I overlooked this game when it came out back in 06 or whatever but now I see it's probably the best final fantasy of the past decade or so. It's much more of a GAME than X and XIII. It doesn't have Tetsuya Nomura's dirty fingerprints all over it so that's refreshing. The only thing that kinda bugs me is all the Shakespearean language, but the conversing between the characters is a definite improvement over X (where the delivery was so awkward it was as if none of the voice actors ever had a fluid conversation with anyone ever).
It's like I've forgotten how to manage troops and shit.you are lucky, i never forget how to shit
Ok right, I've been playing my NEW VEGAS melee psychopath for a while, and I can't make him be EVIL. In the first game I achieved being evil by like stealing tin cans from people's shelves, but I've never seen the alignment change from 'neutral' in New Vegas. The character I first completed it with was 'good' and like pretty easily, but what do you have to do to be considered a douche in this game?
Maybe it is hard to be "evil" in a world of shit.
Oh yes, also I have been playing HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC 1 & 2. I used to rock at those games, but now I'm finding the first levels really challenging. It's like I've forgotten how to manage troops and shit.
Got a loan of my brother's Wii although without the "nunchuck" controller thing. So I can play 2d games but not the 3d ones yet. Right now I'm playing New Super Mario Bros which is pretty much what you'd expect from a 2d Mario but it's good... let's be frank, you'd really have to be some kind of churl to dislike this goofy and colourful game which is blatantly focused on letting kids play around and have a good time... Let's not stoop to this level...
It is interesting seeing how they "sell" the Mario thing to today's rampant youth though. There's a lot of uh learn-by-seeing stuff like that level with the sand jets where a koopa falls onto one before you get the chance just to show how the whole thing works. And the boss fights / several levels are based around introducing exactly one new gameplay element and very carefully exploring it. It is all extremely "designed" / "ludics" and while that's a weird thing to say about a 2D Mario game I do get the sense that it's part of a deliberate attempt to apply that kind of you know mario-starts-facing-right-so-you-know-you've-got-to-move-right mindset to absolutely everything. Formalising it maybe?? I'm not really complaining it's just something I noticed. My favourite levels are the ones with the big spinning block things because the music / goofiness remind me of Yoshi's Island which was a game based mostly around just exploring and finding cool shit.
Once I get the nunchuck from my brother I'm gonna play Super Mario Galaxy which looks cool as shit and also Zelda Twilight Princess on the basis that uh idk I just still can't really believe any 3D Zelda game could be UNPLAYABLE and also I saw a cool screenshot of a really horrible looking old baby running a shop so it looks like there's at least some kind of grotesque streak running thru it. We'll see.. He has some other games on it too but idk what ones are good. I'm gonna get him to d/l Wind Waker if I can find a gamecube controller for this sucker.
playing mother. the first one for nes. i think some people tried to get this game known as earthbound zero, but they are awful failures and probably have irrevocable neckbeards by now.!!! I have no choice but to trust you guys on bringing on the latest updates on both of these issues. godspeed!! I want to know everything. especially wii and zeldas/marios because holy fuck is this just me but is nintendo living in a strange vacuum created by The Wipers (postpunk negative drive -> positive energy zone by sonic) whereupon entering all postpunk deathguitars turn into huge shiny rainbow dildos secretely injecting you endorphins and shoots shrooms into your bloodstream?? surely its impossible to hate these admittely capitalist products cause im having hella fun... all the good/fun childseries morph into strange new shiny funmachines... no amount of/end to sterileness and shinyness can stop the players from enjoying them... the distorted reality is now a necessity to be HAPPY...
i don't really like this game. i like earthbound and mother 3 and by extension should be crazy about this one, but it'd an oddly clunky game. i don't know if it's just me(it might be) but it feels like it takes a lot longer doing simple tasks than it needs to. i don't know. maybe i have reached my maximum limit of tolerance for videogames and now i officially hate videogames. that would be kinda cool, actually. maybe it will let me do something else compulsively when i have free time and am bored.
i know i haven't really OUTGROWN nintendo games or anything. i was behaving irresponsibly at work and played shit like final fantasy and bard's tale for hours recently, even though bard's tale is completely awful.
actually i probably haven't outgrown videogames either, as i played through red's chapter of saga frontier recently and LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT, even the parts that DO NOT MAKE SENSE TO ANYONE.
probably shouldn't keep giving mother the benefit of the doubt then(lol). the only use i am getting from it is that it is unintentionally hilarious when talking about the game.
I HAD ENOUGH YESTERDAY AND DELETED MOTHER
I FINALLY WENT AHEAD AND DUG INTO MOTHER. IT LEFT ME DEEPLY DISSATISFIED.
WHAT ARE ALL THESE HIPPIES DOING IN MOTHER?!?
MOTHER SUCKS VERY HARD
this is not actually too useful either.
i'm going to continue playing this game though. i'm not terribly far into it and i'm curious to see if there's any excellent moments in it. i could fairly say that there are excellent moments in the other two, but i'm kinda struggling with this one so far. we'll see i guess.
STAY TUNED
(i will probably never speak of this again)
EDIT: I forgot fceux let you customize the emulation speed. now i am playing the game at 150% speed and finding i am somewhat closer to their desired effect. hooray for fucking me D:
surely its impossible to hate these admittely capitalist products cause im having hella fun... all the good/fun childseries morph into strange new shiny funmachines... no amount of/end to sterileness and shinyness can stop the players from enjoying them... the distorted reality is now a necessity to be HAPPY...
Anyway I got the nunchuck and will be playing the 3d games shortly! I don;t have a gamecube and didn't even know TP was out for it so I'll just have to lump it.
Wii plays Gamecube games.You can also plug gamecube controllers into the Wii! (I did not know about this until my brother told me)
edit edit *on the run fells on the knees* please hundley. PLEASE. i beg of you. Please - waste even more time on stupid games. please. i plead you. for the greater good pal. don't stop the wheel.ok!
Hah. Give up on your intelligence if you will. Not my loss. basically in retrospect i made a mistake AGAIN (pet topic creeps up again with a revenge) with my text because it was more about david byrne/david thomas buying/watching Captain Nintendo VHS in great eagerness and loving every second of it/not giving a fuck. is this the right analogue? (or even funny? ??? HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLP heeeelllllllllp!!!! gulp garble graaah IM DROWNIIIN- gush splash BREATH) basically yeah theres propably reasons but propably not really worth the fight/trouble to go over them and in fact judging from other people's comments here and my own impression on eg mario galaxy the game seems to be a whole lot better and more consciously uh innocent/well-done than almost everything else in the market right now (iron man 2 movie, angry birds/bejewelled and indie ganes times ad infinitum). i was kind of joking/emphasizing this strange effect of mario galaxy's dissonance (certainly capital/contemporary game entertaiment but still holds good entertaiment valeus from older nintendo stuff) with the celebration/suicide joke.
I mean theres a bunch of reasons to distrust Mario games as a whole and this one in particular but idk I really can't muster the energy. It looks like one of the few KIDS GAMES that still gets made (ie bright colours and sounds and less disgusting powerfantasy spacemarine garbage) or at least one of the few that has any degree of thought or effort involved at all. I was thinking about that ages ago based on your post about the whales in SMB2 and I'm really not sure how many games still get made for KIDS MARKET that are not cheapo movie/cartoon adaptations or Bejewelled collectible shit or whatever. I don't know if I'd recommend it but it is a pretty innocuous game!
Basically yeah I don't know if I'd recommend but it's difficult to "fume" about this extremely innocuous game, sorry rami it looks like you're gonna have to watch TheIrateWhiteGamer001's youtube rants for the full ideological critique...
Anyway I got the nunchuck and will be playing the 3d games shortly! I don;t have a gamecube and didn't even know TP was out for it so I'll just have to lump it.
ok!likewise i was joking and just empathizing? emphasizing? "empathy"/grunt-groaned with a tone suggesting that i know how you are feeling about games and that i felt bit ridicilous suggesting that you'd go through that old nes game that is propably a chore/a grind to go through. though i'm interested of that saga frontier thing for real! i've never played those games...i think? i think i have but only briefly and didn't get into it so it's interesting to hear how some snes game seems to be good/better than say snes final fantasies or whatever.
maybe if you guys are lucky i will attempt to write an elaborate essay asserting that saga frontier is the greatest possible videogame that could ever exist(even though i do not think this is the case)
though i'm interested of that saga frontier thing for real! i've never played those games...i think? i think i have but only briefly and didn't get into it so it's interesting to hear how some snes game seems to be good/better than say snes final fantasies or whatever.i remember when we were at that baseball game years ago you told me that a videogame gave you an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS and i'm pretty sure you said it was unlimited saga, which was part of that ridiculous series of games, but that was a long time ago and i don't actually remember.
i remember when we were at that baseball game years ago you told me that a videogame gave you an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS and i'm pretty sure you said it was unlimited saga, which was part of that ridiculous series of games, but that was a long time ago and i don't actually remember.ahhahaha. some games must have done that to me! i take games very seriously...i can't remember what game exactly though! i have only seen unlimited saga through game magazine shots and front cover and cool graphic art and thats it though.
idk what the game was though and it doesn't really matter. you could insert any game into that and it would be a grand declaration. that is seriously like top-5 best things anybody has ever said to me
ps do not play unlimited saga. the rest of the saga games are interesting though(saga frontier, romancing saga). they are LESSONS IN CHAOS. pretty fun as far as rpgs go.
i remember when we were at that baseball game years ago you told me that a videogame gave you an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS and i'm pretty sure you said it was unlimited saga, which was part of that ridiculous series of games, but that was a long time ago and i don't actually remember.That reminds me we were once talking about making a GAME that's in an existential crisis. At least I remember talking about that once but I can't remember exactly what the idea was or how that would manifest itself.
The whole game "Eternal Sonata" already did that. As cutesy and shit as it is, it was a pretty nice LEAP FORWARD in narrative to have the whole thing set in Chopin's dying brain, with him constantly telling the other characters that their whole world was bullshit.
Ends a little suddenly though, with him just turning around and attacking everyone for kind of no reason.
is that game any good? the chopin thing seemed really interesting but then it looked like a fucking anime so I started thinking twice about it. That and tales of vesperia or some shit like that.
is that game any good? the chopin thing seemed really interesting but then it looked like a fucking anime so I started thinking twice about it. That and tales of vesperia or some shit like that.
My main problem with it is that since my computer isn't quite burly enough to run it, I'm playing it on a console which means... loading.... that ....loading.... it takes a while..... loading..... to load. I count about twenty five seconds for it to load a saved game, which is frustrating to me. In the first two, I'd always throw down a quick save when I wanted to try exploring/doing something stupid just to see if it would work. Now, it takes almost half a minute between saves... so, I'm sort of being forced into playing it a little safer and having to work through mistakes. This may be the first game I actually cave in for and install to my 360.It's actually like that on PC too.
I'd been playing a strictly hack and evade build, so I didn't like getting forced into a pissing contest with a fully combat auged boss. It felt like there should have been a way to circumvent it, a la the original's penchant for side-stepping the traditional boss encounter. To be fair, there might be, and maybe I just didn't find it in my first play through. In any case, I had been picking up a lot of weapons to sell back at the hub (I cleaned out the entire Detroit PD armory and sold their gear off to the arms dealer in order to keep myself in a fresh supply of praxis kits. I was disappointed to find out you can apparently only buy two per limb clinic) so I had some heavy hardware on hand to deal with the boss, aside from the generous load out they provide for you in the boss room itself. I just felt like I shouldn't have had to.Bosses are unavoidable, as lame as it is. Also they patched loading times on the PC version, they may well do the same for consoles.
Bosses are unavoidable, as lame as it is.This isn't true at all.
This isn't true at all.Considering they railroad you into boss fights with cutscenes, I don't see how you could possibly avoid them.
like Spyro The Dragon garbageUhh... what? I hope you aren't referring to any PS1 era Spyro.
Uhh... what? I hope you aren't referring to any PS1 era Spyro.^nostalgia goggles^
I remember Jamie and Hundley talking about Alpha Protocol a couple months ago but don't remember what their general conclusion was. What do you think of this game? I know you're a huge fan of the Splinter Cell spy games Hundley, how does Alpha Protocol compare? I've never really played an espionage game before so I have no idea how this is in comparison to some of the others, but this is also much more of a James Bond simulator than a stealth game. So far I really, really like this. The way the missions are structured and levels are designed are very, very good and the writing is mostly very good as well. The way the game responds to everything you do, the way you complete your missions, the choices you make, the people you talk to, even the clothes you wear, is fantastic and I love the fact that there are consequences for everything and you sometimes (often) have to make extremely tough choices. It is definitely the most 'role playing' role playing game I've ever played.I actually never played the game. The idea sounded solid, and I really like Obsidian's games a lot more than I probably should, but everything I read about it suggested the game was a major failure. Maybe this isn't the case though? I'll give it a try sometime. The game is dirt cheap now.
I actually never played the game. The idea sounded solid, and I really like Obsidian's games a lot more than I probably should, but everything I read about it suggested the game was a major failure. Maybe this isn't the case though? I'll give it a try sometime. The game is dirt cheap now.
dummies don't like it cos the shooting doesn't work 100% (the gibs don't have VisceralBloodCRUNCH effect) and the graphics are a bit wonky. it's fine, though.Oh wow, I was trying to figure out why people didn't like this game and I just never realized it was because of the gun mechanics. I just beat the game (it was pretty short but I am positive that if I play differently the game will be entirely different; everything you do leads up to the final mission) without killing anyone and I used guns maybe 10 times, mostly during boss fights. I just went back and tried it out a little and yeah, the accuracy is really strange. I can understand that criticism but the game is incredibly deep and I don't think accuracy problems should be a reason to write off the game entirely.
whoa statues that can be broken... i hope kojima has his lawyers ready...
I remember Jamie and Hundley talking about Alpha Protocol a couple months ago but don't remember what their general conclusion was. What do you think of this game? I know you're a huge fan of the Splinter Cell spy games Hundley, how does Alpha Protocol compare? I've never really played an espionage game before so I have no idea how this is in comparison to some of the others, but this is also much more of a James Bond simulator than a stealth game. So far I really, really like this. The way the missions are structured and levels are designed are very, very good and the writing is mostly very good as well. The way the game responds to everything you do, the way you complete your missions, the choices you make, the people you talk to, even the clothes you wear, is fantastic and I love the fact that there are consequences for everything and you sometimes (often) have to make extremely tough choices. It is definitely the most 'role playing' role playing game I've ever played.to be honest, alpha protocol doesn't compare. i'm not saying this to knock alpha protocol, as it's a pretty good game, but i don't think they really tried to make alpha protocol in the mold of stuff like hitman or splinter cell. the role playing elements really are the focus of the game and everything else is really just a vehicle for what they were doing with the narrative and style. i'd call it an rpg before i'd really call it an espionage game.
TF2. I'm getting better at Demoman.what hats have you got. tell me about hats
what hats have you got. tell me about hats
what hats have you got. tell me about hatsI don't do hats
I started playing Twilight Princess (GC version on the Wii) and I like it. Feels good and Zelda-y. Although now I see that the Wii controls would be garbage.
it is kinda sad that i just use saltw as HUNDLEY'S GAME & FILM REVIEW EMPORIUMit's much better than [long ][/long], and i like reading it. maybe you should 'blog' this stuff... welcome to the 21st century internet...
should probably try talking about something pertinent sometime?
it's much better than [long list of websites], and i like reading it. maybe you should 'blog' this stuff... welcome to the 21st century internet...Agree wholeheartedly. I can help you set it up if you want.
it is kinda sad that i just use saltw as HUNDLEY'S GAME & FILM REVIEW EMPORIUM
should probably try talking about something pertinent sometime?
it is kinda sad that i just use saltw as HUNDLEY'S GAME & FILM REVIEW EMPORIUMNah man, your posts on this thread are a lot more insightful than most. It's too bad about Lonesome Road because I was seriously considering downloading it. I might get all the DLC's I missed when there is an inevitable price drop.
should probably try talking about something pertinent sometime?
new Vegas seemed to take what was good about FO3 and shove it in a very very linear way(though the story which feels like a bunch of mmo sidemissions put together like a 20 hour rendition of Moira's wasteland survival guide, and creature placement which flat out dictates to you which direction to go in). It has some great points and some real neat design in places, however the places that're meant to BE SOMETHING often seem to have less character than the places which are wasteland in 3.
Ultimately while you're given a more structured experience, you lose a lot of freedom in it because everything is so set in stone. Despite the addition of a more realistic mode, it feels way more like a game than FO3 did.
Even a heavily modded NV doesn't have as interesting a feel as FO3 did unmodded.
New Vegas was only linear up until you start to get near New Vegas itself. I think it's better that way than just dumping you in the middle of a kind of generic wasteland or whatever the world might be. Like take Oblivion - I have probably spent a couple dozen hours playing that game over the years, but I've never felt like I have made any real headway. I get to a point in the main story, lose interest, and just quick warp to some other town and do a couple quests there before losing interest again and just kind of wandering around aimlessly for an hour or two then getting bored with the whole thing. There isn't any thrust to it at all, it's just a bunch of locations you can wander between, none of which are really that interesting.It's an effective rhetoric/tool largely forgotten for a reason or another from a lot of games these days (propably equating that to sandbox games YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE IN 3D WORLDS and indie games are just variations of super metroid system with no real sense of desire of seeing things far away) like i think OoT used this effectively in other way (you see it in the distance! there's a fence blocking your path! you can see it NOW with some help! question is, how and when to get there...) along with Baldur's Gate 1 and Fallout being first open worlds to pull it out...
I suppose if New Vegas actually was just a bunch of generic locations except this time in a straight line, that wouldn't be much better, but by the time I got to New Vegas I felt like I had seen enough of the world and was invested in it enough that wandering around became much more interesting - and I'd say the linear path part is only maybe the first 1/3 of the game. They give you a set of locations with an actual rhythm to them - and I think some of them are pretty interesting - and they make sure you get a good sample of all the different elements of the world and how they interact with each other.
Also, the placement of enemies above Sloan stopping you from heading to New Vegas probably encouraged me to play for longer than I would have if I could've just made a beeline for the main attraction right away, because for one: I don't think la vegas as an idea is aesthetically or substantially interesting, just sad and lame, and secondly, it made me feel like the world had some depth to it. It wasn't just a flat here's a cave here's a town here's another similar town they all have the same stuff in them and the same people etc. I guess fallout 3 had some varied gimmicks to it's locations too, but to me the world feels flat and uninteresting compared to new vegas's slightly more structured and tiered world. You can't just run up to the super mutant village right away, you've got to earn it a little bit, and that makes it more rewarding when you actually get there (if you think a super mutant village is a really interesting idea just in of itself) because when I was climbing up that mountain and whoah it was getting snowy! I've been playing for 30 hours and I haven't seen snow yet! nearly there! I did it! and all of that kind of stuff.
You've got to take your time exploring, and I feel like new vegas gets you into the habit of that by making it very difficult to go to certain places right away and kind of tunneling you along for a while. I think of fallout 3 and I think of a pretty much uniform wasteland and then the capital area, and that's pretty much it. There is differentiation between the wasteland locations I guess, but they kind of happen to you all at once and it feels aimless to me. When I think of the new vegas map there are different phases of the world, there is the critical path segment, then new vegas, then the outer reaches of the map, and then taking these end stage parts and then interacting them with the beginning again and then there are the little areas full of deathclaws and super mutants which are geographically right next to the beginning of the game but were way beyond what you could handle back then. Go back with your super mutant granny and the robot dog and deal with it now, see what's up there!
rambling but I think I said what I meant to
I've been crazy into Dark Souls and I rolled a new character. There's a bunch of items you can get very early on (the first bonfire) with some death runs that help out a lot. Did you come to the dragon on the bridge? If yo ushoot the tail with like 15-20 arrow you get a wicked badass sword.
I've been hanging out here, lots of people discussing stuff: www.reddit.com/r/darksouls (http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls)
I love how challenging it is. It's crazy hard and sometimes you just rage at how stupid a death was (WHY DID I ROLL) but I just keep coming back for more. It's hard to stop playing. It feels really good to run around and fight, and finally defeating an area just feels amazing. I'm still at the beginning technically, I beat the Gargoyles last night (I summoned two guys to help and we killed them so fast). I'm at the Capra Demon right now and this fight is fucking hard, they move so fast and those DOGS. I can't wait for the weekend where I can really get some time in on it.
I started a Pyro and I'm doing much better than my wanderer. I still need to grind a couple of levels, because I need some Dex to equip a bow, then some Str to equip the Dragon tail sword. Drake sword. Apparently it's really awesome. I have a nice Astora's Sword+1 right now but I don't know how I want to level yet, I need STR and FTH for it to be effective and well I don't want a Faith build I guess. I dont know where you get more pyromancy spells, but I want some.
Don't forget to cut the tails off of every boss that has one. They all give you awesome weapons. This game is amazing!! DDay we should try to summon each other sometime, it doesn't work that well but we could probably kick some ass.
[edit] DDay did you mean this guy that you rescued? http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Knight+Lautrec (http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Knight+Lautrec) Because he will kill the lady that upgrades flasks I think, and you find some item that lets you invade him and kill him. If you kill him first you get a ring or something, but if you do it after you get his whole suit of armor.
She also upgrades your Flasks. There's 2 fire keeper's souls you can find before fighting the Gargoyles. I got my flask to +2 and it heals a LOT. Also don't forget to kindle your bonfires, it gives you 10 flasks instead of 5. They also stay kindled forever.'
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I can get15now because im a bad ass that defeated the catacombs so much time and souls invested in that boss run. PS the boss is easy just getting there and not getting fucked up s the goal.
20 is my max i can trow 3 in the fire for the max of 20 flasks
So what is it that lets you get higher flasks is it an item or something?
Also I just finally got out of Blighttown. I hate that fucking place. Also my sword (Astora's Sword) seems to be not very good at all. Took me 2 days to beat Quelaag because my sword was doing fucking 25 dmg per hit, so I had to summon help. Felt like a boss when I finally fucking took her down. Then I went through Great Hollow to Ash Lake and the hydra was way too hard again.
So now I'm back in the Burg and I got the Drake Sword and it is a bit stronger than the sword i was using, but I dunno what to go for next. I have a mainly STR build, but I'm trying to dump some stats into INT because I just upgraded my Pyro hand to +5 and INT will now factor into the spell damage. Fuck this game is hard and so much fun. However I am sort of tempted to make a Warrior or something, magic is OK but not worth wasting points on. Maybe a sorcerer to get Soul Arrow but then focus on STR and END/VIT. No sorcerer sucks. I dunno maybe Warrior. I like my Pyro but I'm at like soul level 30 or 31 so it's getting expensive to level up.
playing fable 2 for no reason beyond the fact that i've been too tired to do anything productive with my free time.
really my most notable comment i have on this game is that i absolutely despise myself for enjoying it.
probably giving the game too hard of a time here, but one of the things i've been too tired to do is take outstanding thoughts and put them into words
I bought Fable 1 and 2 a few months ago because I feel I missed out on the whole FABLE vibe. I keep putting off playing them for some reason. Maybe I will GIVE THEM A CRACK on the basis of the fact that you ARE enjoying even if HATESELF.it's been a long time since i played it, and my tolerance for games like this have gotten slightly more forgiving in recent years, but i didn't like fable 1 at all. i found the experience pretty tortuous, dull, and not particularly engaging. i didn't get terribly far into it before abandoning it completely.
im surprised nobody here aside from me and DDay apparently are playing Dark Souls. This game is amazing you guys, you should give it a shot. The Redboxes around me all have copies so you can probably rent it for a night or two cheap.
The gameplay is pretty deeply satisfying, if you are familiar with Demon's Souls you know what I mean. The game is very difficult and unforgiving, but by contrast when you succeed it feels really fucking good. The game sort of makes you get better at it. It's actually possible to beat the entire game without leveling up or even upgrading your gear. Obviously it'd be difficult, but you aren't restrained by a stats system, only your own skill.
If you are familiar with Demon's Souls I have to say this game is absolutely better in every capacity. The open world format is a blast to explore, you eventually find shortcuts and it all links together. It's a great game.
Story wise it's pretty light, but still engrossing because it's so atmospheric. The world they've built is fairly impressive. The meager story elements kind of add to the feeling of seclusion and doom.
I dunno, I'm just digging this game hard and I've been talking about it with tons of people, I just think it's really neat and the devs did a great job and it really deserves more respect.
Yeah the only slowdown issues I've seen seem more rendering issues than slow loading issues, I don't think installing would fix it. For instance blighttown is very open and there's fog effects and lots of torches/lighting effects. I noticed slowdown whenever the game would have to be rendering a large expanse.
I still think all games should let you install though.
The only good thing about the slowdowns is that it isn't just lag or something; when the game finally starts responding you aren't killed it just freezes for a second. I've even had it happen to me running under the Hellkite dragon, but again I think it was due to processing and rendering the dragon even though I could only technically its' shadow.
But still despite the issues the game is fantastic and extremely well-executed and it's not some dumbed-down hand-holding "auto win" game like everything else out there. I mean everyone here is always big on artistic value and true gaming and this game measures up extremely well. Like literally nobody has even mentioned it aside from me and you. Reddit and every gaming site is literally fawning over the game and here, a place whose opinion I value more than the entire rest of the internet apparently doesn't know the game even exists? It's weird.
I got bored and started Elder Scrolls: Oblivion over again. I have about equal love and hate for this game, as it is incredibly unbalanced, dull, and lifeless yet I continue to play it for hours on end. There's also something really fucked up about the character creation as my guy appeared like a normal dark elf when I was creating him but in the game he's fucking blue. Not just kind of blue but like crayon out of the box blue. It also amazes me (not really in a good way) how varied the difficulty is in these types games based upon the type of character you play. I played as a diplomatic thief character last time and basically got my ass handed to me in any intense sort of battle, and now I made a strong weapons/heavy armor guy with a lot of destructive magic and I'm pretty much dominating everything. I also got so good at the stupid lockpicking mini game from last time that I've realized how useless having a high security skill is.
I really hope Skyrim fixes a lot of the problems Oblivion had.
Is there any kind of multiplayer in that? I watched TotalBiscuit play it some and it looked pretty solid.
Is there any kind of multiplayer in that? I watched TotalBiscuit play it some and it looked pretty solid.Oh yeah, its all about the multiplayer. Has up to four player co-op online. Apparently you can do split screen and online co-op together though I haven't tried it out yet and I heard later on the PS3 version will be able to play with PC players and possibly even people playing the game on their phones(360 version is left out of whatever reason it seems).
Oh yeah, its all about the multiplayer. Has up to four player co-op online. Apparently you can do split screen and online co-op together though I haven't tried it out yet and I heard later on the PS3 version will be able to play with PC players and possibly even people playing the game on their phones(360 version is left out of whatever reason it seems).
it's been a long time since i played it, and my tolerance for games like this have gotten slightly more forgiving in recent years, but i didn't like fable 1 at all. i found the experience pretty tortuous, dull, and not particularly engaging. i didn't get terribly far into it before abandoning it completely.
i'm not sure why i even gave fable 2 a chance, but i kinda liked it, even if a lot of my gripes in the first one more or less were still present in this one. because the game consciously attempts to change depending on whether you're playing the game good or evil, it's all fairly amorphous and indefinite and without a lot of pure substance. still, despite this, i found the game to have a pretty good attitude and self-identity. the storytelling and writing in general is kinda effectively silly, oftentimes even reasonably witty, to the point where you have an utterly ridiculous, almost remotely interesting world. all this doesn't amount to anything singularly substantial, but i found that i was able to get into the spirit of it and take it for what it is.
i don't know why, but this strikes me as a game that you may superficially enjoy like i did. it's all about hedonism and absurdity, and it all kinda brushes by you fast enough that you don't particularly care that it's just empty hours spent in front of a television set.
also, and this is a fairly snotty reading of an otherwise kinda empty game, but the game does a pretty excellent jobs(at least as far as videogames are concerned) of evoking thoughts and images of genuine romanticism. i felt like it wouldn't have taken much structural modification to make it LORD BYRON RPG, which probably explains why i was able to get into the spirit of it. this probably isn't an invalid reading of the game, as it was pretty much where it ultimately ended up, even if it wasn't in the design document to take that much inspiration from that arena of creative expression.
just played through liberty city stories, after playing saints row 2, it was refreshing to go back to a game with characters and story in it, instead of soulless photocopies of al pachino.
Also played the sonic generations demo and it is pretty fun. Check it out.
Fuck, why do I even play videogames?Maybe you find something worthwhile in that experience of playing a game (or variety of them), despite feeling that almost every game in the existence is a pretty horrible capitalist nightmare/ultimately is just hollywood entertaiment garbage?? I've had this feeling for a long time that i like how game experience feels sometimes but you hate most of the content and focuses of games or rules. you like the vehicle, the depth and possibilities of the bare skeleton but you hate all the drives/you realize that nobody ever will or seems to get to the core of the things you find good? that there is never proper discussion about this or good ideas about this?
Duke Nukem Forever feels like a Half Life 2 sequel more than anything. The terrible monster truck level felt like a retread of that boat level in HL2, especially since you had to get out of the vehicle every few minutes in order to take care of something. Then came the Hoover Dam levels, which really screamed out HL2; nothing interesting about them at all.
Speaking of popular games with terrible sequels, I've been playing Sonic Generations and it's really good. How did they manage to mess up the core design of "blue spiny animal, it goes fast" for so long before making a good one? The present adaptations of the early games were really good, so where the past versions of later games. It really made it seem like I was going fast rather than the terrible nature of previous sonic games.
Also I should just keep my mind on this game, but all I'm thinking is "Man, Fallout 4 with this engine is going to rule."
Also I should just keep my mind on this game, but all I'm thinking is "Man, Fallout 4 with this engine is going to rule."It is literally the same engine as every Bethesda game since Morrowind though. Bethesda admitted that it was really just renamed Gamebryo.
It is literally the same engine as every Bethesda game since Morrowind though. Bethesda admitted that it was really just renamed Gamebryo.
Also fuck giants. One randomly waltzed up out of nowhere, punched my horse to death and walked off again. Goddamn dick.
apparantly it is based on the gamebryo engine like all the others but they re-write so much of it's code that it could hardly be called the gamebryo engine so they call it the creation engine, whether that's true or not i really don't care as the game rocks, enjoyed every quest so far and i think the ballance is just right, you only die if you do something stupid like piss off a giant or don't take health potions and so on and enemies don't take forever to kill any more also I think this game would look AMAZING with tesselation.
All I remember about Oblivion was walking up endless stairs and neverending fucking hills
All I remember about Oblivion was walking up endless stairs and neverending fucking hills
that only took like 2 minutes to walk up and the only monsters were a few wolves and a really strong troll i had to run away from. there are people on the way up. it's not that bad, i was pretty happy to be walking up a huge mountain, and isn't what is wrong with this game. wandering around in skyrim is the best part of it. the world wasn't designed by algorithm this time but the writing still is.
only faerun-based fantasy games have enough lore for my tastesa-MEN brotha! *ramci rises his arm to give a highfive with earl, EARLS HIGHFIVE ARCHS SMOOTHLY INTO RAMCI'S HAPPY FACE*
are there still like a million drawers and boxes all filled with inkwell[x1] clay jug[x1] wheat[x3] dress shoes(+0)[x1] because in retrospect this still pretty much entirely sums up everything about the design decisions for OblivionPretty much my thoughts/experience with oblivion though! heh, brothers... like lovers! *ramci pushes in the arm in a friendly manner, catamites sways and looks a mix of shame, confusion and worry, n-noo get me outta this spotlight as everybody's piercing eyes look at squirming catamites...*
blundering through endless houses filled with tumbling physics-based linens and clay pots while a shopkeeper watches you blankly and runs to summon Police Warriors whenever you accidentally take an onion[x1] is such a perfect representation of depressing vidcon consumer wasteland that all the heroic fantasy stuff couldn't help but feel superficial i think.
edit: actually revisionist post (barf) (BARF) but i think the closest thing to a distinguishing feature in that game was the way it took the rpg mix of Action Fantasy and Inventory Accumulation/Management Sim to such ludicrous extremes that nearly everything in the game degenerated into list-based item purgatory. like even in the hellgate demon dimension places you could click on mutilated corpses or fleshy pod things and get... the same faded scroll gui as ever telling you that This Container Holds: Bonemeal[x1] Sour Grass [x2] Human Flesh [x1]. constant stream of fresh corpses yielding Iron Boots [x1] Rusted Breastplate [x1] Scroll Of Longing [x1] Iron Battleaxe [x1]. thats p good i think. secret mturk aggregation simulator hidden inside generic fantasy framework.
edit2 i haven't been following skyrim and probably wont play it so this is a superfluous/decadent post sorry ;o(
on fallout3/nv and oblivion, I never fast travelled. The treking is part of the 'game experience'Yoga is Not for Weak. ~~ klingon / yer full of shit...or shot? shat, is that even a word.... shet. you are full of shet. jesus shet. sorry, talk about empty posts... i'm not that sleep deprived (well, for some) even, i just wanted to get that kawory wordplay (or...W O R L D P L A Y asfgsadfsa) no matter what. i'm shit i'm weak... if i was a videogame chara i'd be Wimp Weakling... weak...pimp? wimp pimp... wimp PIMPLING... . . . just food for thought, everyone...
a-MEN brotha! *ramci rises his arm to give a highfive with earl, EARLS HIGHFIVE ARCHS SMOOTHLY INTO RAMCI'S HAPPY FACE*I'm serious. it's probably all stupid, but in other games I'm like ugh why do I care there's nothing unique about any of this/it's just a video game why care about any lore? eg dragon age is awful. and I can get into NV but even the majority fallout lore in NV is pretty dumb like heh, take THAT still relatively shallow interpretation of contemporary society...exploitative and imperialistic military powers and chemically unsafe artificial sarsaparilla, zing
that only took like 2 minutes to walk up and the only monsters were a few wolves and a really strong troll i had to run away from. there are people on the way up. it's not that bad, i was pretty happy to be walking up a huge mountain, and isn't what is wrong with this game. wandering around in skyrim is the best part of it. the world wasn't designed by algorithm this time but the writing still is.I also encountered said troll, I just BBQ'd his ass with dual flames, and I used my companion as a distraction. and the walk up the mountain didn't bother me.
are the skirrym character models any less sexist or is it still macho strong-looking men with huge muscles followed by spindly fragile-looking women with huge tits
Really? Because I've thought that some of the opponents were unfairly dificult in comparison to others. There were a couple parts where I was dying A LOT and then I'd do the next quest in the set and go unscratched. I don't know what quests you are doing or character build you're playing with or whatever, but I definitley wouldn't say it's hard to die unless you do something stupid.
There was this hagraceven thing that owned me but I was being stupid the first time around and didn't deal with the witches that were around the thing.
One thing I think Skyrim did a lot better than Oblivion is to give your character a sense of progress and gaining strength. I'm really feeling like I can fight and take a hit better each level.
Dude this bothered me so much in Oblivion. Doing quest chains where one part you'd be near-death fighting rats/vermin and struggling just to finish it, and the very next part of the chain you'd just stroll through decimating every person in your way. It was just ridiculous and kind of stupid. Level-scaling areas can be OK if you make it so you are generally slightly stronger than everyone or slightly weaker to denote easy/hard areas/levels. But when it's so "random" it just feels broken.
Been playing Uncharted 3. It's cool, I like this series and their commitment to quality, writing/voice acting is top-notch like always, but the game is as short as ever, which is understandable considering the work that goes into every level but it's hard to swallow the fact that there are other multiplayer games worth playing so the Uncharted series is always more rent-worthy. Plus you have to buy an online-pass, even though you legit bought the game? That's fucked.
Mainly still playing Dark Souls though. Took a long break from it, but I'm going back and trying to avoid using the guide. It kind of spoiled it, well not spoiled but it got to that point where I'd spend more time reading the guide or looking at the weapon/armor stat charts more than playing. So I'm going back this weekend to suffer through it like it's supposed to be.
I bought my brother a PS3 earlier this week... he hasn't even seen the new generation of games much less played them, so he's pretty awe-struck at Uncharted 3, which is the only game he has at the moment. I'm going up there for T-giving and I'll set up a wireless router and get him a couple more games. I'm mostly excited about Red Dead Redemption because the multiplayer is really fun with friends/brothers and it's one of my favorite current-gen games. Plus I know he'll dig it big time.
Uncharted 3 you don't need to buy it if you own the Original Game as long as you buy it new it has the code to download the multiplayer on the back of the instructions.Did not know that, I'll have to go check right now. I know there's a code for the Starhawk Mulitplayer Beta. I guess I exected the online pass to be on its own sheet of paper so I didn't really look that hard. That makes sense though, it would be stupid for them to make you pay for the online pass if you legit bought the game.
I'm serious. it's probably all stupid, but in other games I'm like ugh why do I care there's nothing unique about any of this/it's just a video game why care about any lore? eg dragon age is awful. and I can get into NV but even the majority fallout lore in NV is pretty dumb like heh, take THAT still relatively shallow interpretation of contemporary society...exploitative and imperialistic military powers and chemically unsafe artificial sarsaparilla, zingahahahahahahaha you can't since i was jumping in my chair hella mad, wooopp w ooopp!! i'm honoured, 'tis was only I who could have understood that joke/that's an honorary joke/it's really good holy shit. ramci leans forward and earl leans backward unnerved, george clooney starring ramci pulls the suit's jacket slightly to reveal a diamond encrusted dagger hanging from a hypnotizing ruby neclace, holy shit!! earl is pale, george clooney winks... it's inevitable.......... earl's gonna see his moonblade in action aaaaa sorry that was low.
the 2012 forgotten realms game doesn't sound that great though. for one it's an MMO. and the story sounds kind of dragon age/300esque and there are only 5 classes I think? what of spending hours poring through game manuals reading all the strengths and weaknesses of different races/classes/prestige classes and formulating different combinations?? plus doesn't D&D 4 make most of the Realms lore useless anyway. *ramci gleams welcomely to Drizzt Do'Urden, but his expression turns to one of astonishment as it is met with drizzt's smug grin...bruenor and wulfgar appear from behind, though we had thought them dead... sorry ramcy this is your thing and I'm stinking it up
I bought my brother a PS3 earlier this week... he hasn't even seen the new generation of games much less played them, so he's pretty awe-struck at Uncharted 3, which is the only game he has at the moment. I'm going up there for T-giving and I'll set up a wireless router and get him a couple more games. I'm mostly excited about Red Dead Redemption because the multiplayer is really fun with friends/brothers and it's one of my favorite current-gen games. Plus I know he'll dig it big time.nononononoNONONO GR NO- oh wait how old is your brother?? is he young? i mean every child should NEVER (*ramci's voice is hoarse/haughty, stares shocked/seriously at the startled GR*) be dumped into PS3/XBOX 360 straight away, instead you MUST give them all kinds of older consoles first. nes and spectrum/c64, PC-88...then pentium II windows 95 with soundblaster 16, this is important!!...then snes, genesis...slowly, slowly!! now now, careful... then blast his mind with N64 and maybe some couple good games on PS1, dreamcast and saturn even... . this is the official uh statement/rules/manifesto/laws/OPINION yes opinion of Salt World (tm) (c). You Fucked My Dreams plays is ramci's anthem/fuck your children up...
in japan, they have usb connected sex toys for when playing their weird games.
I want someone to program it up for a rougelike.
it is pitch black. you are likely to be fellated by a grue
This made me LOL very litteraly.oh no dragon age isn't forgotten realms, I just used that as an example of what I think is a bad fantasy game
also http://www.citouch.com/citouchstore.htm (http://www.citouch.com/citouchstore.htm) :D
I couldn't seem to get into forgotten realms rpgs, dragon age is the only forgotten realms rpg i ever got to near the end (last mission to kill the hulked out dragon) but i couldn't be bothered to finish it.
ahahahahahahaha you can't since i was jumping in my chair hella mad, wooopp w ooopp!! i'm honoured, 'tis was only I who could have understood that joke/that's an honorary joke/it's really good holy shit. ramci leans forward and earl leans backward unnerved, george clooney starring ramci pulls the suit's jacket slightly to reveal a diamond encrusted dagger hanging from a hypnotizing ruby neclace, holy shit!! earl is pale, george clooney winks... it's inevitable.......... earl's gonna see his moonblade in action aaaaa sorry that was low.yeah, the connection to books upon books of lore makes the world feel real or something. I've played both baldurs gates pretty extensively, but I grew up with neverwinter nights. I'm playing the first one again for the first time in probably 8 years, and it's all coming back to me. I'll let you know how it is. so far I'm struck by how COMPLETE the game feels already, which is something I always talk about but idk if anyone cares or understands. so many recent games feel strangely convoluted and incomplete
also actually i agree with all you've said! but i really have no other experience with d&d classes apart from Baldur's Gate series in which the balance was for the most part pretty engaging and interesting even though some combinations just killed the game (kensai/mage dual in bg2... fighter/mage multi or bard in bg1...barf...). and i guess the lore is good enough to be a background/a sandbox for whatever goofy fights against floating tyrant jelly cubes/eyeballs (fucking xvarts from bg1 aaaaa. gimme all kobolds, goblins, xvarts, gibberlings, troglodytes...) and social conspirancy stories to work within the lore-logic of the series. the interesting classes and restrictions pretty much defined all the NPC's a whole lot, which is propably a crime in year 2000 and mturk looks scornfully at the old bg's.
(finding a pack of small little blue, balding children (called svarts) with small swords wearing just leather waistcoats and boots trying to kill a cow in the middle of nowhere/wildreness, hell yeah!)
idk we're both talking about for the most part a pretty garbage semi-massmarketted genre of an for the most part an awful medium (games) but still, i think the things to be said for eg baldur's gates that they could really be pretty engaging and immersing games as exploration games and that they were pretty fun and interesting to check out for the most part. the battle system actually worked and proved out to create interesting NPC's or fights in themselves with a lot of tactical-control side of the battle (for a real-time battle systems at any rate) with not so much grinding elements/number crushing, unless if you spent your time checking out all the areas besides the main storyline. the lore was just good and the level of writing was good enough to not to be hollow or patronizing or just a illusion/shell of a world.
man fuck me here i go ranting about baldur's gate again. hundley AND ramci look gloomily into space at the bar...
nononononoNONONO GR NO- oh wait how old is your brother?? is he young? i mean every child should NEVER (*ramci's voice is hoarse/haughty, stares shocked/seriously at the startled GR*) be dumped into PS3/XBOX 360 straight away, instead you MUST give them all kinds of older consoles first. nes and spectrum/c64, PC-88...then pentium II windows 95 with soundblaster 16, this is important!!...then snes, genesis...slowly, slowly!! now now, careful... then blast his mind with N64 and maybe some couple good games on PS1, dreamcast and saturn even... . this is the official uh statement/rules/manifesto/laws/OPINION yes opinion of Salt World (tm) (c). You Fucked My Dreams plays is ramci's anthem/fuck your children up...
if he's older then nevermind, empty post, garbage post. a tilde... or a dildo? hmm the writer's dilemma...
yeah, the connection to books upon books of lore makes the world feel real or something. I've played both baldurs gates pretty extensively, but I grew up with neverwinter nights. I'm playing the first one again for the first time in probably 8 years, and it's all coming back to me. I'll let you know how it is. so far I'm struck by how COMPLETE the game feels already, which is something I always talk about but idk if anyone cares or understands. so many recent games feel strangely convoluted and incompletei'm gonna blow ya mind, tbh i didn't like NWN1 or 2 so much/at all! i sort of liked how much certain elements you can customize yourself or how much you POSSIBLY could make everything look like but... i guess i do see that it still has more to the world than a friggin oblivion or dragon... dragon? effect? DRAGON AGE. i sort of see in retrospect that both had a lot of good ideas and you could had possibly made something worthwhile from it but i don't think they succeeded anyways. there was just huge problems with how the battle system worked, how hollow/static/restricted the world felt- i could go on much longer but in overal i think that as an IDEA - that you can easily CREATE worlds even though the blockiness and non-customization for lot of things blew - should had promised a relatively interesting/complex worlds or substance but that side ESPECIALLY was completely ignored or under-achieved of the most elements. the fixed, claustrophobic one-person/no-teammembers rule with real-time fights really destroyed any tactical depth.but i did like lot of things from the dual-classing but that stinked in overal. i do see why it seems like a great idea (goofy/effective combinations).
I know nwn doesn't have xvarts and gibberlings tho
Basically, i'm saying that unique perceptions are hard to discuss upon as you may not share common abstract terms or language with other people. you can't also explain how you feel about that stuff as it's just your DEEP EMOTIONS. when you add that you mostly react to things with gut feel or you have some faint idea or a vibration that how things should be done or what you see in midst of everything...
I meant Baldurs gate, but i got the acronyms mixed up with dragon age soo it kinda comes out as Baldurs age XD.oh then no, I don't think so. maybe one of the developers said that somewhere, but they're not at all the same. maybe you're thinking of the diablo series? I've never played them but they sound kind of similar with the super-simplified class system and probably derivative arbitrary fantasy garbage and super-weapons too
i'm gonna blow ya mind, tbh i didn't like NWN1 or 2 so much/at all! i sort of liked how much certain elements you can customize yourself or how much you POSSIBLY could make everything look like but... i guess i do see that it still has more to the world than a friggin oblivion or dragon... dragon? effect? DRAGON AGE. i sort of see in retrospect that both had a lot of good ideas and you could had possibly made something worthwhile from it but i don't think they succeeded anyways. there was just huge problems with how the battle system worked, how hollow/static/restricted the world felt- i could go on much longer but in overal i think that as an IDEA - that you can easily CREATE worlds even though the blockiness and non-customization for lot of things blew - should had promised a relatively interesting/complex worlds or substance but that side ESPECIALLY was completely ignored or under-achieved of the most elements. the fixed, claustrophobic one-person/no-teammembers rule with real-time fights really destroyed any tactical depth.but i did like lot of things from the dual-classing but that stinked in overal. i do see why it seems like a great idea (goofy/effective combinations).aaa stop! I mean it! you're flattering me bonzi.
man basically let's plan our dream baldur's gate 1-nwn combination sometime earl...come drink some sake with me earl!! two naked manly muscular men in japanese sauna/spa grunting and laughing manly while drinking sake and talkin bout games and woooooomeennn, all of sudden a figure appears in entrance! mmm, a-anoo... a young, beautiful slim boy with silver hair, purple eyes and onyx skin, c-can i join you you g-guys? two of them burst into manly laughter, it's catamites! stark-naked, smiling earl smoothly jumps from spa to in front of catas and throws him to ramci in spa! catas looks astonished and tries to cover his groinal area while blushing. more groaning and laughter etc etc
I'm getting to the point in Skyrim where I don't really want to play it any more but I know there's still a shitload of stuff I haven't done yet so I feel like I should keep playing. Oblivion did the same thing to me. I think Bethesda tries too hard to give you so much shit to do. I'd prefer a 20 hour game that kept me interested the whole time than a 100 hour game that loses its touch after a while.
Dark Souls patch finally out in NA. I've been waiting to play it again until the patch came out.
Lots of stuff, some minor some major (fixing glitches and stuff like that), including changing/modifying the stat scaling of weapons and stuff like that. Changes to magic. Lots of changes honestly. Nothing that was stopping me from playing, but just more like an excuse to stop playing for a little while (played some Uncharted 3 in the meantime, haven't been gaming that much lately).
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-22-dark-souls-patch-1-05-released-notes
Dragons really aren't epic at all when you realise a goddamn saber tooth cat can easily beat one into the ground. How did they not pick up on how pathetic they are in testing?I haven't even played this game but it seems more likely to me that dragons were a lot stronger, but then during the testing phase they decided that a player needs to be able to beat one in a relatively short time, otherwise they'll get bored.
I think with the dragons they knew that by having them roam anywhere you were bound to run into them at a low level and shouts where enough of a part of the game that you'd need to be able to kill them fairly easily. I think whem you were still level 5 or so fighting dragons was fun and challenging, but by the time perks have accumulated they are really easy. Towards the end of the main story there's a couple of dragons as mooks in one of the levels. If you level up enough different kinds of dragons show up that are much harder, like Ice and Blood dragons. Not unstoppable, but by that time I could kill regular dragons in about 10 hits.The Blood Dragons and stuff are an example of how they could've solved this issue. It's basically level scaling, and they could have easily kept upping the ante with dragon types. But they don't, really, and the dragon types are spaced out to the point where you spend a long time killing dragons in like five power attacks before the game decides to push it up a level.
I decided to use up all the leather I had stocked up just to get rid of it and ended up getting 2-3 levels from a full iventory of leather wraps. I then figured I may as well get rid of all those useless petty soul gems I had stored up and enchanted all the leather wraps only to get another 2-3 levels. I then went to a bunch of merchants to sell all the handwraps only to get another level from bartering.
Got like 7 levels in about 15mins.
You arn't the chosen one in oblivion, if any that would be martin's job.
I think they're over compensating for the fact that you just helped the chosen guy in the last game.
I know.
wwe12. I don't wtch wrestling, but I love the creation options these games provide. I have a cast of around 30 characters I create in each one, and continue its stories year on year. Just uploading more tracks to use as entrance music.you might like skate 3, where you own a skateboard company and make your own team of sponsored skaters with their own styles idk
This one has a better physics system and more realistic interactions, and the ability to get announcers to name your characters, however with a limited number of names, you have to improvise and make compound names. Orion has to be made as O-Ryan, and Barroness is B-Aarron-S
but it's fun :)
bought Chrono Trigger on the virtual console and been playing that... and man I must have some kind of deep rooted childhood attachment to that game because every time I hear that freakin' world map song for 1,000 AD I feel like crying... probably has to do with playing the shit out of the game as a little kid.
now that I paid like $8 for it, hopefully another chrono game magically appears from the heavens.
you probably feel like crying because the composer had like ULCERS and shit when he did the soundtrack. this is true look on wikipediaalso it's far and away the best soundtrack
also it's far and away the best soundtrackearthbound *>:[ (yours truly: bonzi "anime" buddy...)
earthbound *>:[ (yours truly: bonzi "anime" buddy...)bite me pal
also there's propably some other cool st's i'm forgetting but far and away is eb
I've never heard the word yonic before. I'm going to name an RPG character that and some nerd will have to look up meanings of the name and... oh my godlol, glad to have improved your vocab.
shit login brought me to the wrong topic. This is for what movie/Kill Bill topic
I love dwarf fortress so much.
I rented Skyrim from a Redbox yesterday so I'm giving that a play. Apparently, on the PS3 at least, as the game save file grows in size, it starts becoming super laggy and eventually unplayable. That sucks.
I was wondering why I was lagging so much. Theres no way they can debug that and update or some shit? the xbox version doesn't do it? cus I might buy it for that if it works way better.Farren... i know it's hard to accept but...Obsidian.
Farren... i know it's hard to accept but...Obsidian.
..............................there is no patch for that bug on the ps3...........it is a game-breaking bogus bug.......there have been many complaints...........................These are the things I know.
Farren... i know it's hard to accept but...Obsidian.
what?Not sure what Jamie is talking about exactly, but someone from Obsidian did mention that due to the way the gamebyro engine was built, the saved game problem is pretty much impossible to fix(and if it can be fixed, it probably isn't worth the time/money to do so), else they probably wouldn't have removed an entire town from New Vegas. The actual problem is that the game saves almost everything in the game world you move, including the tiniest objects you probably didn't even intend to move on purpose. By themselves they don't mean much, but after a couple of towns touching everything, your save game file size explodes.
they better fix that shit cus that game is awesome. I like it way better than oblivion theres more shit going on and narrative interactions which is what I hated about oblivion.
else they probably wouldn't have removed an entire town from New Vegaswhat was this?
what was this?Also intrigued.
what was this?Primm (http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1303536-new-vegas-developer-comments-on-ps3-lag-issues/)
This is why some of our later patches actually removed content from the core game (e.g. Primm). Even though we had balanced the memory footprint for the core game, DLC content was pushing down the available resources.
Steam Holiday Sale and my poor impulse control are conspiring to assassinate my wallet.
The only thing I really didn't like about Skyward Sword from the get-go was the fact that every Zelda game I've tried to play that has consciously tried to live up to Ocarina of Time has always fallen short. I hate having to shut all that stuff out consciously just to enjoy a few moments of engaging game-play, and the only time where I felt like I didn't have to was when playing Ocarina of Time. And every single time they rip it off, it's for elements that are either superficial, or entirely cosmetic reasons which relate in no part with why I personally enjoyed that one so much in the first place.
But I'll play anything all the way through if the gameplay is worth it overall. I've already gone through the trouble of getting it, so I was planning on playing the rest of it at some point anyhow. I'm sure that's how this game really shines, but all the work getting to those parts in those "inbetween phases" is really going to irk me the further in I go. (I've just now reached the first parts of the first dungeon, but I'm trying to hold off a while on just beating it, in order to savor the moment.)
The only thing I really didn't like about Skyward Sword from the get-go was the fact that every Zelda game I've tried to play that has consciously tried to live up to Wind Waker has always fallen short. I hate having to shut all that stuff out consciously just to enjoy a few moments of engaging game-play, and the only time where I felt like I didn't have to was when playing Wind Waker. And every single time they rip it off, it's for elements that are either superficial, or entirely cosmetic reasons which relate in no part with why I personally enjoyed that one so much in the first place.I watched my flatmate beat Wind Waker recently, which kind of put it in perspective. I have a habit of excusing the pacing problems at the end and exaggerating the dungeon design. There are some really rough edges in Wind Waker. I may change my opinion on replaying Skyward Sword, but what tips it over the edge for me is that Skyward is a hard game and Wind Waker isn't really. I haven't had to concentrate or think while playing a Zelda game in a very long time.
But I'll play anything all the way through if the gameplay is worth it overall. I've already gone through the trouble of getting it, so I was planning on playing the rest of it at some point anyhow. I'm sure that's how this game really shines, but all the work getting to those parts in those "inbetween phases" is really going to irk me the further in I go. (I've just now reached the first parts of the first dungeon, but I'm trying to hold off a while on just beating it, in order to savor the moment.)
Never been big on Zelda games. Only one I've played was the SNES one though so IDK. I enjoyed the SNES game. its just that the others just get a big 'meh' from me every time I see gameplay. And then there is the fact that they just tell the same story over and over with variations in themes.I mean that I don't like to buy games that were funded by the large publishers for the mass-market. I don't like to buy games whose primary function and habitat is that of commerce.
Also, not to be rude biggles. but what do you mean you don't usually like to buy commercial games? because any game you would have to buy to play would be commercial. Do you mean big budget titles? or are you actually just saying you don't buy any games usually?
yeah but can you see your feet when looking down in first person view??no you can only see your giant robot dick
Well it is an mmo and every mmo is pretty much like wow right? Can I kill whoever thefuck I want or do I got to go find the sith/jedi base like wow.It doesn't even try to distance itself from generic WoW gameplay at all. Except by implimenting lots of dialogue trees and shit that dont fit in an MMO at all.
Ima force snap a motherfuckers neck.
saints row 3 is such a fucking unlikable game, but im kinda enjoying it. I hate how generic it is, how bro it is, how sexist it is, how dumb it is, how it's idea of hilarious is strippers with machine guns, i hate how it has no story and how every single character is a total cunt that i honestly wouldn't care about if they died. But man, you can customise your character, your cars and your gang. I get a major boner for customisation to the point where i'm a dedicated follower of wwe games for solely their create a wrestler modes. It just constantly reminds me of how much GTA4 is an unbelievably good game.
saints row 3. hideous, disgusting, gross, sexist, dumb, unlikable, yet somehow enjoyable.
well, it is what it is. i haven't played any saints row game myself, but is it accurate to call them parodies? parodies generally mock whatever it is they're spoofing and have some kind of commentary to make about the matter. you could have all that over the top machismo bullshit and not be sexist if you had an interesting point to make about how stupid and ridiculous bro culture or whatever is.I don't think so goin by a dev interview/trailer I saw, but it could easily be played that way going by vellfare's/other youtubers vids of it
We should have a DF topic going on here, seems like we got fairly good number playing it. (the reason i play it is because mc currently sucks)i've only played DF once because it was pretty terrifying. now that there are tilesets i'd do it.
We should have a DF topic going on here, seems like we got fairly good number playing it. (the reason i play it is because mc currently sucks)
pokemon mystery dungeon. The dungeons are rougelike, but with Pokemon. It's pretty damn cool.
I get paid a grand a week to sleep on a couch in the rec room, watch mexican tv, and facebook + gw. shit is HELLABORING
probably even funner.more fun*
more fun*no its funner
I'm used to the tight controls of Dark Souls so the game felt very sloppy and imprecise.
no its funner"more frailer than the flowers, these precious hours"
This relationship was described as "pushing the boundaries" by Guardian Unlimited.[8] Criticism of the relationship came not only from industry observers, but also from some gamers who felt that gay characters should not be included in video games in order to maintain the status quo.[7]
ToEE is great up until the point when you realise it's only half done. Plus they took out the brothel quests and getting gay-married to that gay pirate (I forget his name).
Still though, you're correct, I bloody LOVED the game when I was playing it. Especially IRONMAN MODE. Basically it went downhill once you actually enter the temple IMO, but otherwise it filled quite a lot of funtimes for me.
Plus getting that weird Druid (the first kind of "boss" you fight) to join your crew was a nice unexpected twist.
It's funny that you should say that, because just about as soon as I got to the Temple I lost interest.
I agree that the druid guy thing was a nice twist, but when I beat him I was totally not prepared for it and was like "Yeah I'll follow you to the Temple after not resting up. You should be strong enough to help me out for a battle or two" and then got my ass handed to me."
I also think they didn't have to make such an accurate simulation of rolling a twenty sided dice. It would be nice if there wasn't a turn where at least half of my team missed.
Portal 2 is so great. I wish I had gotten it when there were still people who haven't played coop but still wanted to. I never got to play the coop. and it seems pointless to play it with someone who knows all the answers...
Soul Caliber 5is it good? I preordered it but it hasn't arrived yet. is kilik really a mimic character now? I'm gonna critique this shit when I get it
is it good? I preordered it but it hasn't arrived yet. is kilik really a mimic character now? I'm gonna critique this shit when I get it
nah I don't know anyone who plays this. I didn't really like 4's online mode either. I mostly got it for the character creation, which is a little less powerful than I was hoping and a lot of the clothes look kind of weird, but it's still neat
I actually recently just started up the 14 day trial of EVE online. Are there any pilots on GW? I tried it a few years ago and loved it, but didn't really have time for it. I love the space combat and intense complexity. But, it's definitely not for the faint of heart of "casual gamers."I used to fly for GoonFleet. It was fun for a while, but I eventually realized that I would never excel in PvP without investing way more time into the game than I was willing. Also the game was way more buggy back then.
Darksiders, Diablo and Minecraft.
Is Darksiders pretty cool? I've seen a bit of Lets Plays, heard it was Zelda-esque in some way, it looks kind of cool, and Darksiders 2 is coming out soon. I might try it out.Every room is a puzzle, controls are unresponsive. It's visually impressive, but stupidly similar to Ocarina of Time.
downloading mass effect 3 demo from Origin, which I hate. But will obviously piss off all torrenters.
i heard it looks bad. i really liked 2, so i am keeping eyes on this dirthole. sure hope you'll post your impressions!
yeah at least half of the characters have kinda cheap combos that are easy to pull off, low-risk, and difficult to counter. mitsurugi, natsu, xiba, nightmare, ezio, the pyrrhas, devil jin, orb girl, probably some others. it's pretty unbalanced right now and idk if they're going to make significant changes. I just wanna level up enough to unlock all the character creation parts
was there a reason you weren't blocking or using the super combos btw? I didn't know if I shouldn't either.
I did block a few a lot times when you combo me well I won most of mt battles. also the last Cervantes (me) vsI didn't know if you didn't want me to block. aside from the first and second battles I was just trying to figure out how to use the other charactersnightmare(not sure if it was nightmare in fact it probably wasn't nightmare because that's a bad move to do to him since most of his moves a line slash but I hope you know which one I was talking about.) you should of lost Remember every time I did the upper cut sword and you where steeping in and attacked at that moment. I was hitting R1 button and back for the disappear dive and some how I was doing that fucking move<_<. (And I was using the D pad) Also super combos do you mean the move where you hit all the buttons. (If so I suck at doing that so I don't.)
I also suck with Voldo but pulled off a few wins with hi.m I just plain suck with devil jin never played as him much and some moves can get you killed and they seemed to do so when I faced up with you. I notice you like devil jin a lot dose he sill have his 1 hit kill move?
I didn't know if you didn't want me to block. aside from the first and second battles I was just trying to figure out how to use the other charactersMy bad I didn't mean jin I mean Yoshimitsu (I sucked with too)
yeah by super combos I mean the critical edge things. they're super combos in street fighter
I don't really like devil jin, and I dunno if he has a 1 hit kill move. if you're referring to my main, that's yoshimitsu and he doesn't have any 1 hit kills, but he has some high-damage combos. the difference between him and characters like natsu and nightmare tho is the fact that all yoshimitsu's high-damage combos are also high-risk and/or difficult to pull off. I think this is unintended tho and those characters will be balanced out after a patch
also when you were maxi and I was voldo, I did random select and I actually thought I was maxi for the first round and a half
Devil Jin is in Soul Caliber 5? No way hehe!
warpped655: Dude, I really want to play like a SHOOTING SOLDIER GAME, but where the fuck do you start? Like I'm either going to buy a CoD or a MW game, but I know so little about either that I'm stuck with which to get. You prefer MW or?
devil jin My bad I didn't mean jin I mean Yoshimitsu (I sucked with too)oh yeah, I think the seppuku/harikiri move used to kill yoshimitsu and do half a bar of damage to the opponent. he still has that move, but it only does about 1/3 a bar damage to both
Yoshimitsu Is suppose to be a high risk hell his one hit kill move kills the controlling player if it misses. (just found this out maybe the Suicide stab move isn't one hit KO but I remembered in the Arcade Version of the game it was a one hit move) I saw it done by some other player back in the day. Even my brother saw this guy do it. so the console version must of been tweaked so it was not a one hit kill. Interesting.
it's his move set, and I think it's modified to include some more long-range moves. you can make your own devil jin with the character creation featureoh yeah, I think the seppuku/harikiri move used to kill yoshimitsu and do half a bar of damage to the opponent. he still has that move, but it only does about 1/3 a bar damage to both
warpped655: Dude, I really want to play like a SHOOTING SOLDIER GAME, but where the fuck do you start? Like I'm either going to buy a CoD or a MW game, but I know so little about either that I'm stuck with which to get. You prefer MW or?
Oh. yes... there is a lot of them. In most cases people want to get into multiplayer. In which case, whatever people are currently playing (as in, a game in which its community isn't dead)
I actually don't have a preference between CoD and Battlefield games. They are both fun in different ways. CoD is a little more newbie friendly though (arguably). Currently, I believe Call of Duty 4's multiplayer is still alive, and its arguably the best of the group. Its single player is even pretty good.
Counter Strike: Source is another obvious choice. But I usually don't play it and its DEFINITELY not new player friendly. As most of the people playing it have been playing forever and are scary/inhumanly good.
The current CoD is MW3. And has been the game I've been playing. Its honestly one of the weakest of the CoD's multiplayer-wise in my opinion. But its not necessarily bad and I'm obsessing over it anyway. My main issues are that the maps are very samey in structure, are all close to mid range (good luck if you want to snipe), and some of the weapons are just basically garbage (especially in the close quarters). I recommend watching some of the in-depth videos on the weapons done by a guy named drift0r on youtube. They are pretty informative. (Though he occasionally makes mistakes, be sure to check for any updates to his youtube). I've yet to play Single Player. This is the first CoD that I skipped right over SP to play MP, and that's largely because MW2 had a very dumb plot in comparison to CoD4.
The current Battlefield (Battlefield 3) is a game I've yet to play due to EA's Origin and lack of money. Its a little more advanced I'm assuming (I did play Bad Company 2) For instance it has bullet drop, destruct-able structures, big maps, and larger number of players in a single game. I've heard its single player is bad though.
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finished pokémon red in one sitting yesterday
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26730020/silph_scope.png)Did I take a time machine back to 2008 Gaming World or what?
oh god helpp
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i'll get you for this, oak
geo is that an event from your game or like some meme thing? If it's from your game then, coupled with your response, tripled with your recent response to frisky skeleton (...mummies need not apply) means you are most likely the front runner in the "totally funny dudes I know" contest.yeah, it happened to me....
yeah, it happened to me....when I saw the screenshots I actually thought it was due to using the fishing rod at a non-water tile (through some other glitch). resulting in encountering enemy 0 or 255, i.e. glitched oak. or something like that.
(i read that prof oak was coded in at some stage and you can activate him with a gameshark code, but unfortunately i forgot to define his team with a different code and this was the result)
pokemon has so many cool glitches / weird quirks. i think in terms of the whole madcap experience nothing holds a candle to the original two pokemon games. that's kind of impressive / cool after so many years
when I saw the screenshots I actually thought it was due to using the fishing rod at a non-water tile (through some other glitch). resulting in encountering enemy 0 or 255, i.e. glitched oak. or something like that.nope. fishing in the statues in gyms actually works in every gym, but you'll only catch stuff in misty's gym (because it has water in it, it has fishing encounters programmed in). you can also surf inside those statues. pokemon rules.
yeah that's what people have been doing with pokémon for years! i guess getting past the kid blocking the path to mt. moon / skipping brock is that kind of thingYeah, and there are different ways you can go about it. Things like skipping Brock is called a sequence break, which means you're breaking the natural order in which you're supposed to do things. Which also has specific methods associated with it. Then there's other types of glitches, like getting yourself stuck into a wall being possible in a lot of early games because the programmers had to cut some corners in order to get good performance. They knew players would get themselves stuck in a wall at some point, so as a quick fix they usually eject you from the wall as quickly as possible, meaning it's a good way for speedrunners to save time.
please dada i know what sequence breaking is... -.-In that case why don't you write an essay about it??? I will be expecting it in my PM inbox by the end of next week.
well first i need a website to submit this essay to >Salt world happen to be site.
I'm finding it really difficult to distinguish between dada and hero bash now. I have to recheck the name and go "oh shit second a".The difference is he never says anything of value and I do.
dada do you hear me, the only difference between the two of you now is a SINGLE LETTER. I hope this makes you take a step back and ask yourself some HARD TRUTHS!!!
I believe it makes me an admin by extension. Or dmin to be precise.A demon?
is that a new rm?
actually the part of the game where i did not just put down the controller and give up on the game but i probably SHOULD was when they "went for the throat" in their nauseating pseudo-controversial way by having a small child inexplicably blow up.
i tried out worlds.com. went in to a lobby with a bunch of people who were very likely engaged in strange codependent online relationships with one another. accidentally walked through a mirror and ended up in a hidden room with floating cubes adorned w/ hieroglyphics. i was unsure of how to fly, so i quit. very good.this sounds like an awesome dream
I resent them making the choice for me. Killing anyone is wrong, but if I'm playing a game where murder is sanctioned as necessary for survival then at least give me the choice not to be a psychopath about the whole thing.yeah i never got this either, like the game has this ridiculous identity crisis about its stance on death. they went out of their way to make the gore as ridiculous and prevalent as possible, where damn near every time you shoot somebody their head will explode in super slow-motion and the camera will actually follow the bits of brain as they hit the ground, but OH GOSH NO CAN'T EVEN AIM AT CHILDREN. feels kinda dumb that they'd actually have a vaguely high-brow decision like that(relative to every other stooge in the industry anyway) in a game that is literally an exploding limb simulator.
i prefer the morrowind approach, where kids are just mysteriously entirely absent.
The act of murder is less likely than the act of sex. Kids watch people killing other people in a video game they usually wont consider doing the same. Kids watch people fucking and it just adds to their desire to wanting to have sex.
The act of murder is less likely than the act of sex. Kids watch people killing other people in a video game they usually wont consider doing the same. Kids watch people fucking and it just adds to their desire to wanting to have sex.
The act of murder is less likely than the act of sex. Kids watch people killing other people in a video game they usually wont consider doing the same. Kids watch people fucking and it just adds to their desire to wanting to have sex.What you need to do is introduce kids to the concept of sex in a responsible manner rather than pretending it doesn't exist. I mean, sure, if you show them porn you're not exactly giving them good learning material, so don't do that, but you have to consider that there are significant barriers that prevent the trying out of sex. It's not something kids just go out and do.
Well clearly pretending sex is horrible/doesn't exist has done pretty well re: keeping kids from having sex too young OH WAIT
http://kag2d.com (http://kag2d.com)
Its from makers of Soldat and is a Medieval CTF, thats Terraria/Soldat/Minecraft based. So Addictive.
It's in Alpha and is free to play, but $9 currently for Premium (will be $25 for the game)
I rented saints row 3 based on what I've read here and what I've seen about the character creation. I like it so far, but I think probably only because I'm playing as a woman with a pompadour. play this game as a swanky macho male character, as is probably intended, and suddenly it's super gross
-BODY-
SEX - no not that sex!!! Choose Male or Female (for all the pervs like me out
there ;p)
RACE - No kidding here!!!
BUILD -
You can be anything from Edward Norton to Arnold Shwazzasenasr..( you get it!!)
Wanna see something funny, choose the female charater (no she's not topless)
and make her fat and musley !!!
SKIN - Slect your skin tone...
BODY MASK - Man with a Bikini Thong Tan is allowed (HA HA...)
AGE - What the F*** ?
SEX APPEAL - Perverts... all of them.... (I know what your checking out
ass-clown, I was stuck in this place
for twenty minutes FYI)
I kind of get the impression that Obsidian didn't have much time to actually make the DLC and focused more on the story and dialogue for them more than the gameplay from the DLCs I've played. I kind of wish Obsidian could get like 3 years to make a game so they could work out all the bugs and gameplay shit and make something as good as their ideas are.everything they do is unfinished, including New Vegas itself. they're like procrastinators, they COULD finish it on time but have anxiety over being judged on their full effort. so they send out half-finished junk and soak up all the praise over their apparent great ideas that just didn't make it into the game
a couple years ago I was the only person here who thought bioshock sounded like total trash. didn't play it tho, there were like 3-5 years where no one released any games that were worth playing at all
dead money was pretty good. hundley liked it a lot too. I wish they'd done more with the survival aspect tho, maybe I had to be playing on hardcore mode
and yeah, the setting and the survivalist background story make Honest Hearts worthwhile. the Burned Man is a pretty interesting idea in concept, but in execution he turns out to be just a really boring and ineffectual protoplasmeverything they do is unfinished, including New Vegas itself. they're like procrastinators, they COULD finish it on time but have anxiety over being judged on their full effort. so they send out half-finished junk and soak up all the praise over their apparent great ideas that just didn't make it into the game
everything they do is unfinished, including New Vegas itself. they're like procrastinators, they COULD finish it on time but have anxiety over being judged on their full effort. so they send out half-finished junk and soak up all the praise over their apparent great ideas that just didn't make it into the game
I'm pretty sure a lot of this has to do with them getting deals to do quick sequels for Bioware and Bethesda games. I think they only got like a third of the time to make New Vegas than it took to make Fallout 3, yet they tried to make a bigger game. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the South Park game as it's not a sequel and they can get graphics done so much faster so maybe they can finish the damn thing.south park? really? what a waste
I thought Fallout 3 was pretty good until I played New Vegas and realized that it fixed nearly every single thing that sucked in Fallout 3. It was AGES before I went back and actually beat FO3.
Also yeah the South Park RPG thing is a waste considering South Park is a vile piece of shit that reinforces some really horrible viewpoints. There's not even any hope that they might try to take it in a different direction considering one of the character classes is JEW welp good job everyone.
Don't forget "walk forever through vast expanses of nothing/get frustrated because you cannot jump over giant inexplicable pile of rubble that forces you to zigzag around a predefined path". The more I remember about playing Fallout 3 the more I remember why I didn't finish it for ages.
Also somethin' or other about transformers at the end idk
I think it had a few good things none of which I can remember at the moment but overall New Vegas is everything that Fallout 3 isn't.
On that note, here was my experience with Skyrim:
Go into town
Realize towns are bullshit
Spend the rest of the game just exploring the game world and hunting and ignoring quests entirely
I spent hours playing Skyrim and I did almost NONE of the main quest. I also never fought a dragon.
What did u think was missing? I was pretty satisfied with new vegas, all said.essentially what tristero said here:
after morrowind, bethesda loves to make sandbox games that are impressive on first blush and slowly reveal themselves to be as constrained as anything else on the market, making the sandbox elements mostly padding and let's-pretend material for people to project their own fun on to.
oh yeah I forgot to say the endings are boring
essentially what tristero said here:
the more I play NV, the more I realize how empty and lifeless the world is. there's sort of a mythology of content, brought on in part by how overwhelming and expansive the game seems at first. once you lift back that veil it's a relatively barren game. also, several of the locations are barely more than names on a map - red rock canyon and boulder city are two.
I played 10 or 11 different characters though, and finished the game twice. to the game's credit it is pretty easy to create your own content, if you enjoy roleplay. I still think it's one of the best games released in recent years tho
I guess the problem with FLNV then is that the mythology fails you pretty easily at some points. it'd be different it was the same throughout, but it's not: you go from a highly-detailed and very complete environment like Goodsprings to the emptyness of Red Rock Canyon, a place with faceless npc clones and nearly broken dialogue, and you can't help but to be a little disenchanted. so many parts of the game clearly feel unfinished, and that kind of ruins the experience for me. I'd rather they had just omitted them and kept the place a myth - red rock canyon, maybe I'll go there in a dlc someday
Mythology of content is pretty much what games are. roleplaying all the way, i dont need infinite stupid dungeons with pretty graphics like fallout 3 if there's enough good NPCs that it seems like a populated world. agree that its empty btu there is quite a lot of story. I had veronica as a follower and her story adds a lot.
does anyone know anything about gotham city impostors? http://youtu.be/lIcnLNHQ9ho (http://youtu.be/lIcnLNHQ9ho) if no one from Outerlight worked on this game, then these guys really borrowed heavily from BGT and the ship. also does anyone know the name of that song
I guess the problem with FLNV then is that the mythology fails you pretty easily at some points. it'd be different it was the same throughout, but it's not: you go from a highly-detailed and very complete environment like Goodsprings to the emptyness of Red Rock Canyon, a place with faceless npc clones and nearly broken dialogue, and you can't help but to be a little disenchanted. so many parts of the game clearly feel unfinished, and that kind of ruins the experience for me. I'd rather they had just omitted them and kept the place a myth - red rock canyon, maybe I'll go there in a dlc someday
every Obsidian game I've played has the same problem though so they clearly aren't learning anything from their failures
veronica is a pretty good follower, and I like cass too. I don't think boone is supposed to be funny. about half of my characters were cannibals or outcasts tho so they just had Rex
the closest i've ever come to playing an mmorpg was diablo 2 (so not very close at all), but I've always been sort of bittersweet about not getting in to them at some point in my life. on the one hand i probably would've fallen in to it like a drug addict, on the other hand it seems like i'm missing out on a pretty big blindspot of game content. i blame WoW, which never interested me in the least, and appears to have killed the market for competing mmos
OR kill your followers over and over again using a flamethrower!Everyone is killable in New Vegas, and the story can still progress after major characters are killed. That's why Obsidian are better developers than Bethesda.
I don't think there's enough flamethrower ammo in the whole of Fallout 3 to even wound dogmeat ;_;
Haha no way? That must have been before the Broken Steel expansion right? That expansion pretty much made him un-killable.Yeah, I don't think I had Broken Steel installed by that point, so maybe that was it.
If it was after that explanation then I can't explain it. You can pretty much kick back and let dogmeat take everything down after BS is installed. Like I say, I once tried to kill him myself at level 30 and, after multiple tries, I did manage to succeed, but it took a LONG time, even with my high stats and guns/explosives maxed out. It expended the vast majority of my huge swathes of ammo too.
Even if he does go down, compare him to dogmeat in Fallout 1 - you can't even GET to the end of that game with dogmeat in tact unless you use a kind of glitch door trick - he's definitely destined to die. ESPECIALLY if you flamethrower XD!
PS: You sided with GIZMO? That is pretty rad.
How is Mass Effect's combat and leveling?
Hilariously Bioware are making the next C&C. I have no idea what is going to become of this. Pretty sure the whole series nose-dived after Red Alert 2.
Actually yesterday I was screwing around with Legend of Princess. Not bad.Is this that little "demo" thing that someone made that was like a super-stylized Legend of Zelda type deal? I have that saved here on my work computer and play it every now and then, it's really decent and I wish it'd be fleshed out into a full game, it'd be really fun, especially if it was on consoles too.
..... or maybe not, Fun but confusing and a little odd.
Really want to play my FO2 but i's a bitch to make these old games work in newer machines. it lags painfully.
Also, have you guys heard about Wasteland 2 being a fan-funded project. It's really great, I have Wasteland in dosbox but haven't got to finishing it yet.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
Is this that little "demo" thing that someone made that was like a super-stylized Legend of Zelda type deal? I have that saved here on my work computer and play it every now and then, it's really decent and I wish it'd be fleshed out into a full game, it'd be really fun, especially if it was on consoles too.yeah, that thing.
I want to play KOTOR 2 at some point, heard it wasn't as good though.The writing was arguably better, it's just they cut a lot of content prior to release and it shows. Well worth a play though.
What is it about loosely? I've never heard of it but might check it out.
Also red dead redemption is really good
really really good
I've never played a western game or seen a western movie I liked as much as red dead redemption
I'm playing Kotor on my computer when I'm off. Last time I played it I was like 15 and did not really notice as much how well incredibly well written and voice acted it is. And there are a bunch of videos and bits I don't remember I read the comp version had a little more added to it? I like the kotor star wars better than the movies pretty much theres so much more depth to it.
The mandalorian and carth onassi. Are those both Baldwin brothers voicing them? Or the same baldwins? Cus I swear carth onassi sounds like alec baldwin. Which is so awesome because he does a great job at it. I think between baldwin and george clooney those dudes are cool. I was watching the fantastic Mr. Fox and he sounds like george clooney, which is also cool as hell.
i only trust hundley on [...] opinions
The writing was arguably better, it's just they cut a lot of content prior to release and it shows. Well worth a play though.There is a fan made mod that includes a lot of the stuff that was remove from the game(fortunately most of it was still on the disk).
What is it about loosely? I've never heard of it but might check it out.I assume you were asking me. I haven't gotten too far yet but basically there's a secret society of mages that wants you to be part of their gang and there's some kind of war going on.
shit, I did not know about that. Now I'm not playing kotor2 till I get home to download that. I don't understand why they didn't already do that officially, its been years. Whatever asshat decided to scrap the kotor series really needs to lose his job.Unfortunately, Lucas Art, the extremely poor company it is, told Obsidian to release the game early. And given they weren't willing to wait till the game was finished, they probably weren't willing to pay for a patch or dlc(to be fair, at that time dlc and patches on consoles were new and not built into most games, but that excuse doesn't work for the pc version which was released later I believe).
I've been playing Shadowrun on the SNES all day. I'd never played it for more than 5 minutes prior to today, but it's fucking AWESOME. I don't even know why. There's a shitload of grinding for Skill Points, the battle system is pretty much ass, the story is like an amalgamation of every Philip K. Dick novel ever and I think it's about impossible to know what to do without a walkthrough, but for some reason I've played it like a solid 5 hours today.Then I'm sure you will be glad to know(if you didn't already...) there is a Kickstarter for making a new Shadowrun game (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns). A full blown RPG, not that FPS shit for Xbox. I'm a bit more interested in the new Wasteland game (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2), but this sounds like it will be pretty awesome as well.
Scratch my last post, I played Morrowind all day.
you n'wah!Heh, *reloads to last save* *Tries to steal item again*
i wish i could take a pill that would make me forget my morrowind experiences so that i could play it fresh and experience the wonder once morethis with ff8
I just beat Villa 3-1~my hero~
bah, football. (American or otherwise)
Morrowinding: I earned about 200k in gold from just going into a tomb, killing and soul trapping some the randomly spawned enemies. Then went to Caldera and sold them all to Scamp.
I basically don't have to worry about money anymore.
FOOTBALL. MANAGER. 2012.
4 hundley 4 world 2 nigs united 4 west compton http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167700/Fallout_New_Vegas_dev_Obsidian_could_be_involved_in_Wasteland_2.php (http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167700/Fallout_New_Vegas_dev_Obsidian_could_be_involved_in_Wasteland_2.php)well shit. i actually RAN to kickstarter to throw my obligatory fifteen bucks in to find that they've already reached the milestone. like now they're already just outright listing chris avellone as one of the game's developers.
well shit. i actually RAN to kickstarter to throw my obligatory fifteen bucks in to find that they've already reached the milestone. like now they're already just outright listing chris avellone as one of the game's developers.
dropped fifteen bucks anyway, even though i am ABSURDLY POOR and should be funding my own projects right now.
I'm gonna guess that you guys have already talked about Mass Effect 3's ending so I probably don't have anything worthwhile to add so I'll just say: yeah it was pretty dumb I guess but man the internet is just the worst
I actually didn't mean because of spoilers because I normally don't mind them and can avoid them easily enough if I want to. It's more the insane outrage over the ending that I find irritating. GET OVER IT NERDS. There was some internet contest somewhere for the worst company in America (or just in general?) that EA "won" over Bank of America, and yeah I understand that it is just some nonsense internet contest with no effect on the business practices of the companies that win, but it just strikes me as INTERNET CRUSADE that was perpetuated by people who got up in arms over the ending of ME3. (Also I understand that EA has a number of other shitty business practices but I'm still convinced it was the ME3 ending that convinced the mouth breathers that they were worse than fucking BANK OF AMERICA). dumb ending, who cares.Oh I know you weren't talking about spoilers. I just hate spoilers is all.
grimrock is so fucking goodu playin it bro? groan whops i mean you like it/is it HOW good, elaborate. it seemed like repeat of old-hc dungeon masters (which don't get me wrong: owns, bonzi proceeds to all-female party + editing the pixel portraits of females to nude) but are there something new/interesting in it/there? some interesting/experimental content? also ahhaah it seems it's made by finnish huh
u playin it bro? groan whops i mean you like it/is it HOW good, elaborate. it seemed like repeat of old-hc dungeon masters (which don't get me wrong: owns, bonzi proceeds to all-female party + editing the pixel portraits of females to nude) but are there something new/interesting in it/there? some interesting/experimental content? also ahhaah it seems it's made by finnish huh
u playin it bro? groan whops i mean you like it/is it HOW good, elaborate. it seemed like repeat of old-hc dungeon masters (which don't get me wrong: owns, bonzi proceeds to all-female party + editing the pixel portraits of females to nude) but are there something new/interesting in it/there? some interesting/experimental content? also ahhaah it seems it's made by finnish huhYeah it basically is that, just a nice callback to those old school dungeon crawler games. The combat takes place in real time, though, which is interesting strategically. You can come up against multiple enemies while locked in a small room, and you have to maneuver around (backwards).
Yeah it basically is that, just a nice callback to those old school dungeon crawler games. The combat takes place in real time, though, which is interesting strategically. You can come up against multiple enemies while locked in a small room, and you have to maneuver around (backwards).ohhh!!! then it's a shameless update of engine from dungeon master/return to chaos/chaos strikes back but that's okay. all of those are cool games. even those were real-time even though you can't see the moving animation of enemies and probably less to no quick time events (eg troll rushing at you). maybe... some of these youngsters, when they're done with grimrock... they try chaos strikes back, only to give up at the starting room... :^B
To learn spells to find scrolls which show a sequence of "runes" and when you cast a spell, you input the series of runes and hit a cast button. It's kind of neat. There's nothing super groundbreaking or anything like that, but it's definitely well made.
at least a game that you hate / that stinks elicits some sort of emotional reponse, even if it's not the intended one. i think these are just too bland even for that
Is it odd that I, only a few years ago, tried playing all the FF games and failed to play any of them substantially? because I thought all the stories were dull and uninteresting... I mean, I played BELOVED 6 and 7. Neither seems compelling, story wise, and the translation made it hard to follow/care about/take seriously.
I also played 1 and 4. 1 I actually played a decent amount, but I still got bored. 4 I ran into a save game problem (I was playing it on a emulator) and lost like 2 hours of progress so I dropped it. It seemed ok. but just ok. *shrugs*
And I played about an hour of 10. Ugh, I couldn't enjoy it either. Main character was very dumb.
The only FF game I've played and enjoyed was tactics and that was because of its GAMEPLAY (I like tactics games). Not its gripping story (which I don't remember in the slightest).
but it's better than FF10 and I need to play something to keep me motivated/enraged enough to finish making my own game.
finally got through the d3 queue to play it. pretty fun. at first it felt like it'd been dumbed down, but thinking about it they didn't really remove anything that wasn't already pretty dumb (like how assigning skill points is a foregone conclusion of enough to equip whatever, nothing in energy, everything else in vitality). you only get so much room to play with skills, but it seems like skill runes are going to create a lot of depth. graphics and, ergh, 'gamefeel' are all really tight. also i like that there're legit gold sinks now - looking forward to seeing how artisans pan out.
apparently gems are going to play a more important roleYessssssssssssss
Before that happened though I had the chavviest Renault Clio sport (probably faster than a Ferrari).souped up '76 golf gti B)
I was thrilled with GT5 when I got it for christmas and the whole family took turns in doing the top gear track with the wheel but I couldn't keep up playing it because my ps3 shit itself and died. Before that happened though I had the chavviest Renault Clio sport (probably faster than a Ferrari).
Fuck Sony and Microsoft for making consoles that barely last 24 months when there are perfectly working 24 year old Nintendos.
Also a lone khajiit that talked about invisible dragons, tasty horses, were-sharks, and no less than the talking mudcrab and how the mudcrabs are taking over.
The more I play this game the more it reminds me of like, an NES title, where you’re playing a game from a time when most designers just didn’t know how to treat players and they put the most frustrating shit in the game. Downpour is increasingly becoming a 3D equivalent of that. Just with, like, unexplained paths that look like nothing. There’ll be a row of junk, and it’s so visually busy, like everything else in this game, that your mind passes over it and you register it as another nonsensical border on the level, the kind that anyone IRL could just hop over (you know the kind of boarder I’m talking about), but this border has a little slit in the side of it and you can slide through it. You have this arbitrary slide move that let’s you fit through tight spaces, and you use it here on this thing that looks like a border because the designers don’t know how to direct the eye, they have no idea how to use space. It’s awful. That’s what I mean about NES era kinds of design obliviousness.
This is exactly the impression I got when I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Maybe they handled it in that game slightly better than the people that designed the game you are talking about, but it's still insufferably frustrating for a task that is in principle pointlessly straightforward. Like for a little while I could be okay with playing through those annoying obligatory tutorial styled bits at the beginning parts, but then I get hit with some stupid oblivious little ledge and even after finding it after searching the same area for 20-40 minutes straight (ok, so you force me to hold hands with you through EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE GAME EXCEPT THIS ONE PART WHERE YOU LOOK FOR A STUPID LEDGE TO SHIMMY ACROSS?), any desire I have to keep playing immediately gets sapped from my person.I furiously hated that part of Skyward but loved the rest of it. Except the plot.
Even if the game gets better later on, this thought lingers in my mind as something the designers established that you can possibly encounter, but still never see coming, and I can no longer enjoy anything else in that game that is still worth enjoying.
Anyone playing Demon's Souls while it's not too late???
"The true Demon's Souls starts here"
servers goin down May 31st
lets examine all bloodstains
and invade others worlds
and leave misogynist madlibs near female npcs, just one last time
"Dont go forward without Sticky White Stuff"
"Beware of the enemy's Bloodletting"
"Kick"
and if someone says "move on to dark souls lol" im gonna murderize them, its not the same ok
"I've been in Soul Form for so long..."
add me on psn sunowl-1 if you're around SL50 (heh), i enjoy co-op
Umbasa...
This is exactly the impression I got when I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Maybe they handled it in that game slightly better than the people that designed the game you are talking about, but it's still insufferably frustrating for a task that is in principle pointlessly straightforward. Like for a little while I could be okay with playing through those annoying obligatory tutorial styled bits at the beginning parts, but then I get hit with some stupid oblivious little ledge and even after finding it after searching the same area for 20-40 minutes straight (ok, so you force me to hold hands with you through EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE GAME EXCEPT THIS ONE PART WHERE YOU LOOK FOR A STUPID LEDGE TO SHIMMY ACROSS?), any desire I have to keep playing immediately gets sapped from my person.I remember having this thought about SS that its stream of helpful information was so extensive, and so overwhelming, that it eventually becomes entirely unhelpful and serves to negate itself. There is so much to sift through that your mind glazes over and takes for granted that you're being told nothing, so whatever real, valid, pieces of information are in there are being lost in this sea of dialogue.
Even if the game gets better later on, this thought lingers in my mind as something the designers established that you can possibly encounter, but still never see coming, and I can no longer enjoy anything else in that game that is still worth enjoying.
They added writable books to minecraft's latest weekly update. Once its released in a full version, I will then have a fascination with finding books people have written online, as well as writing some myself, maybe leaving some for wandering players to find.
Rumor is that Bethesdaboooooo
both earl and tristram look depressed as their own respective artgames turn out to be esthetically arty angry birds clones... braid rises up to stand and clap
I'm somewhat interested in the PC port. I'm not usually into Fantasy games outside of Elder Scrolls but Dark Souls looks really good.
Also, I would have figured that you'd still be able to play Demon Souls offline.
I tried out the "Morroblivion" mod that takes all the code from Morrowind and has it run through Oblivion. Basically it kept all the things I liked about Morrowind (Atmosphere, characters, quests) and got rid of all the things I didn't like about it (slow ass walking speed, terrible interface, awful stealth, bad combat, constantly draining fatigue, no fast travel without paying the silt strider guy) It has increased my enjoyment of the game immensly. You hardcore Morrowind people can call me a n00b or whatever, but I don't care. I'm actually enjoying your game now, ok?
then i see grown ass men on steam who have played 8000hrs of "garry's mod" and it makes me feel better about myself
Rumor is that Bethesda is making the next Elder Scrolls game a MMO. :(
That good huh?Without a doubt.
How does leveling work in the game? Is it particularly unique? General combat mechanics? Either similar to other games?In Dark Souls? Well I don't know how much about it you know, but when you kill enemies/bosses they give you "souls" which are used as a currency throughout the game, both to purchase attributes (like Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, etc) and to buy items from merchants or upgrade your equipment at blacksmiths. When you raise your stats (by sitting at a bonfire, which are like checkpoints throughout each area, but the whole world is open and connected together and there are shorcuts to various parts of the world) you "level up", so your "Level" is really just how many points you spent on your attributes. Leveling up isn't super important, and there are soft caps around 40-50 for each stat (Vit and End are your main stats you will get to this asap), and then Str/Dex/Int/Fai depending on your build/weapons/gear.
I got in last night at like 1am or something (I wasn't planning on staying up to play because I don't care that much about playing DAY ONE OMGG, but I was just awake so I figured i'd try to log in after the inevitable DDoS), played with some guy up just barely past where the beta ended (we beat the skeleton king then warped to an area then went to town and logged). Not much to say I mean it's basically the same as the beta, the game runs well once you were able to log in, I think it seemed like there was a few new enemy types running around and I'm not 100% but I think some skills/runes shifted or changed a bit from the beta.I'd play both of those games with you sometime if you want. I'm actually not-sucky at Starcraft 2, although it has been a while since I played much (I think I was in Diamond 1v1 a few months ago.)
Hey I also bought Starcraft 2 last weekend and I've been playing a little bit against computers and shit, just trying to learn the basics and stuff. Anybody that sucks and wants to play with me that'd be awesome. I haven't even played more than 1 game in the practice league or whatever so I'm still very terrible. I think the game is awesome though and I really wish I would have gotten into it earlier.
Magic The Gathering IS pretty bad.
Warped: I'm glad at least somebody agrees with me. (The only reason I don't post in this topic about it is because discussion of gameplay experience only makes sense to people already deeply immersed in the game itself, and sort of breaks the spirit of what this topic is really about.)
Don't mind DDay, I am sure he's just resentful because he wants to get everyone to play Vanguard instead, and MtG stands in direct opposition to that goal.
I hear the game been having problems with a lot of user whether it be installer or starting the game.
some JERK named vellfire thinks link's awakening is better than metal gear solid, please set her right on a few issues
Vellfire is factually correct on this issue, sorry geodude. No disrespect, but it's confirmed by science.i heard you're writing an essay about the narrative techniques in zelda games. in your own time. for fun. i don't think you get an opinion, mate.
this is what i'm playing
ok w;ell bye
good game
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this is what i'm playing
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ok w;ell bye
some JERK named vellfire thinks link's awakening is better than metal gear solid, please set her right on a few issuesWhile I have played metal Gear Solid and loved it, I have not played Link's Awakening meaning I can't make a fair comparison. Also I'm mildly biased against anything Nintendo outside of Mario and Starfox. The only Zelda game I've ever played was the SNES "A Link To The Past". Which I did enjoy.
Saying zelda is better than mgs is like saying steak is better than apple pie.
Still, while the idea of mise en scene isn't exactly directly applicable to videogames, it's not something I think you can totally ignore, which virtually all game development peoples believe they can do.That post was probably too long winded for anyone to call out(or even read probably!) but the more I think about this the more I think I'm not giving quite enough credit to game designers when it comes to this. After I wrote this post I immediately thought about the New Vegas DLCs which, while all kinda flawed in certain ways, actually had some of the best examples of this I've ever seen in games. I could probably say the same for Bastion and a bunch of other games(even beyond games that did it extremely well like Killer 7) if I sat and thought back to moments in games where I felt something relevant was being conveyed visually.
Maybe a dumb question but have you tried googling specific error messages? The fact that it can play SC2 but not D3 seems especially weird. It's not a netbook or anything is it?
Try running windows update and installing any service packs or whatever, saw that mentioned elsewhere.
my friend bought a used copy of mirror's edge yesterday and we played through the whole thing and it was totally unremarkable. but I guess that's old newsIts not mind blowing I agree, and it was probably one of the shortest games I've ever played, but I enjoyed it anyway. I actually adapted to the first person 'platforming' almost immediately because I'm so used to the POV, while a lot of my closer friends got kind of frustrated with it. I kind of hope they make a sequel for it if only because its at least somewhat unique.
edit: ACTUALLY it does star an athletic asian woman who isn't overly sexualized, which is pretty remarkable, but it's totally wasted on an otherwise completely forgettable game. guess we're just stuck with bald space marine forever
anyway, on the whole i'd say i'm disappointed, and i'm probably going to force myself to stop playing (it's addictive, but not really fun) until things improveI'm pretty much the same sometimes. However I enjoy games enough where this doesn't exactly HAUNT ME or anything. II merely wonder if I could be doing something more worth while (in terms of my own enjoyment, not work/progress), then realize, not really outside of just other forms of media like books, movies, TV.
also, if i'm being honest w/ myself, i have to say that at least part of it is that i'm not 15 any more and as i'm playing i'm thinking to myself like, "hey, what about practicing coding, or how about how you got kinda fat last semester dogg, maybe you should work on that instead of playing glorified farmville"
Its not mind blowing I agree, and it was probably one of the shortest games I've ever played, but I enjoyed it anyway. I actually adapted to the first person 'platforming' almost immediately because I'm so used to the POV, while a lot of my closer friends got kind of frustrated with it. I kind of hope they make a sequel for it if only because its at least somewhat unique.
Also, can't a 'bald space marine' technically be a female?
Beat Dark Souls again yesterday with my brother, now I'm on New Game ++. Feels pretty good. I love this game. Every time I fire up any other game I just end up thinking about Dark Souls and switch to it.
not sure what your point is but let me know when the protagonist of a video game is a bald non-white female space marine and I'll check it out
dude are you playing ps3 or 360.....my mouth is watering...
i was going to get the pc version but i dont think i can wait that long, after they kill the demons servers at the end of the month i might just get dark souls ps3, theres no other series that can satisfy ,e fucj dialbo3
I play on PS3. If you wanna play together I'm down, but just FYI it's so much easier to coordinate summons if we use a phone, that's how my brother and I do it. We actually started some sorcerers last night so they are still pretty low level. But if you are on PS3 and want to play I'm totally down. I'm not like a "super master" or anything but my brother and I are both pretty good, we usually beat invaders when they invade us, and we both know where all the secrets and shit are, and just little info like how/what to level and what gear to use and whatnot. But yeah my PSN is "ridespirals" so add me if you want. I won't be playing much this weekend as I'll be out of town but after that I'll be playing for quite a while still. I'm trying to platinum the game and I have about 75% of the trophies so far.
I know people are kind of mixed about Diablo 3 but I'm really digging it. I'm one of those people that couldn't care less about the online play and just want to click on shit until it dies and get rare items. I'm playing as a Witch Doctor and I find it super rad. There are just so many crazy spells that class has that it keeps the combat fresh. Like how many other games can you say that you sicked 3 venomous zombie dogs on enemies and then when they are getting weak you use them as explosives? I do hate when the game lags out though, and the mandatory online DRM thing is pretty stupid. I also think the game is sorely lacking in the music department in comparison to the first 2. But I really like it and will probably play it a lot more.
yo what's the deal with people who buy games and then never open them. what is that.
well a lot of people have more $$ than time so
also ""steam sales"
nah, actually it's fucking shit. just wait until the honeymoon period is over
Yeah. In my case its definitely Steam Sales. I have a large (but slowly shrinking) collection of games I've bought due to steam sales. At this point though I only buy games that I've been specifically waiting for to reach 5 dollars or lower. I haven't bought a game in many months.
However my gaming has screeched to a crawl due to a sudden lump in work I have to do.
I was mostly thinking of people who make the effort to go to a store and drop $60 on a physical copy of a game and then going straight to CoD or whatever when they get home as if they didn't just buy a brand new game. It's one thing to spend $5-$10 on a whim and end up not really playing the game very much (or at all) because that's not really much of an investment (I mean I spend roughly the same amount to SLOWLY KILL MYSELF every day which is objectively worse), but at $60 you are just being irresponsible with your money yo. And I'm talking specifically about people who don't even unwrap the box. It's regrettable if you spend that much money and end up just not liking the game very much, but at least you made an attempt to get your money's worth, you know?
On a related note I bought a used copy of Alpha Protocol for $7 the other day and have played an hour or two and have already lost interest. I went into it knowing that the gameplay was going to be pretty lousy, but I had heard that the choices you make in the game significantly affect the way the plot plays out (unlike Mass Effect where there are really only peripheral changes), but unfortunately that plot appears to be TOM CLANCY'S: STOP THE TERRORISTS which is supremely uninteresting. If it turns out to be a wacky Metal Gear style plot then I might pick it up again, but otherwise I guess I'm going to have to read a book I GUESS.
I was mostly thinking of people who make the effort to go to a store and drop $60 on a physical copy of a game and then going straight to CoD or whatever when they get home as if they didn't just buy a brand new game. It's one thing to spend $5-$10 on a whim and end up not really playing the game very much (or at all) because that's not really much of an investment (I mean I spend roughly the same amount to SLOWLY KILL MYSELF every day which is objectively worse), but at $60 you are just being irresponsible with your money yo. And I'm talking specifically about people who don't even unwrap the box. It's regrettable if you spend that much money and end up just not liking the game very much, but at least you made an attempt to get your money's worth, you know?I was honestly innocent of the knowledge that this was even a thing that people do.
yea some people have that much $$ i guess2 things:
i know a lot of gamesjournos like that but its not their fault their business interferes with pleasure.
actually yes it is
alpha protocol, i hear very good things about that game actually, and have been tempted to pick it up since its so cheap (ADDING TO MY PILE OF forever UNPLAYED GAMES). i hear it has some crippling weaknesses but is interesting and unique enough to be a bit of a cult hit (not unlike deadly premonition i guess??)
also i have resolved to just delete steam. i've had enough of the "CANNOT START IN OFFLINE MODE, YOU NEED TO BE ONLINE TO DO THAT" bullshit when i want to play offline dude gabe i already payed for all these shitty game.s helldamnfart
I was honestly innocent of the knowledge that this was even a thing that people do.
2 things:
Have you heard of Backloggery?
And I can only assume you are joking about deleting Steam.
I was honestly innocent of the knowledge that this was even a thing that people do.
alpha protocol, i hear very good things about that game actually, and have been tempted to pick it up since its so cheap (ADDING TO MY PILE OF forever UNPLAYED GAMES). i hear it has some crippling weaknesses but is interesting and unique enough to be a bit of a cult hit (not unlike deadly premonition i guess??)
On a related note I bought a used copy of Alpha Protocol for $7 the other day and have played an hour or two and have already lost interest. I went into it knowing that the gameplay was going to be pretty lousy, but I had heard that the choices you make in the game significantly affect the way the plot plays out (unlike Mass Effect where there are really only peripheral changes), but unfortunately that plot appears to be TOM CLANCY'S: STOP THE TERRORISTS which is supremely uninteresting. If it turns out to be a wacky Metal Gear style plot then I might pick it up again, but otherwise I guess I'm going to have to read a book I GUESS.idk if i'm remembering this wrong but i remember finding the gameplay of it a little difficult to get into first, like the first levels were kinda wonky anyway, with the gameplay kinda evening itself out when you unlock more skills and shit to make the progression of the game a little easier. like i remember finding stealth almost impossible early on in the game but reasonably functional at times later on. it's been long enough since i played it(and it stuck with me that little to make my memories kinda hazy) so i don't really know if this was my doing or the way the game worked.
yo what's the deal with people who buy games and then never open them. what is that.
don't have the net to steal shit
yo what's the deal with people still on 56k dialup. what is that.
It's been a while since I played Fallout 3, and I've played through every other Fallout game at least twice, so I thought I'd give it another go. It's a lot worse than I remember it being. Like, how anyone likes this more than New Vegas is completely beyond me. I think the art is a bit better and you can tell they had more time and money than Obsidian, but Bethesda really fucked the atmosphere up so bad. I also don't know why they made 30 really long quests instead of like 100 short ones. I played for about 3 hours and I really don't want to play it any more.
I don't really care for open world games all that much unless its integrated into the gameplay rather than "hey here are a bunch of places you can walk to". If you know what I mean. Like, this sort of thing makes sense in the grand theft auto games because of police chases. Or in a couple of 'tactical shooters' where they let you try to choose a smart path on a map rather than a linear map. (Ghost Recon comes to mind)
yeah, i tried to play it again recently and ran in to the same problems. the reason i've seen people give for preferring 3 to NV is that 3 has more stuff in it, whereas NV is more of a sparse and guided experience (like you're sort of railroaded for the first 3rd of the game), but that seems to confuse having a lot of boring crap to wade through with actual good content. plus the DLC of NV gives you plenty of time to experience that sort of free roaming thing, esp in OWB.
yeah, i tried to play it again recently and ran in to the same problems. the reason i've seen people give for preferring 3 to NV is that 3 has more stuff in it, whereas NV is more of a sparse and guided experience (like you're sort of railroaded for the first 3rd of the game), but that seems to confuse having a lot of boring crap to wade through with actual good content. plus the DLC of NV gives you plenty of time to experience that sort of free roaming thing, esp in OWB.
Have you guys seen this game Dragon's Dogma? From what I can gather it's basically garbage: huge open-world but no fast travel and all enemies are in the same place every time (meaning when you are running 5 miles back and forth for a quest you will do the exact same thing every time) among other things. But the combat looks kind of cool, very arcadey and all the spells and whatnot look really cool. It's like a combination of Shadow of the Colossus, Devil May Cry and God of War with some Skyrim/Open-world RPG.
But I keep watching videos and it seems really neat, but I won't buy it because I know it'll get boring or become utter shit, without a doubt. However, if the game had co-op, I would have bought 2 copies already (for me and my brother).
I really want a nice open-world-ish RPG with action-based combat and online co-op! There's no games like this!! Dark Souls is the closest thing and while it's an amazing game (best game I've ever played), I just want something a little "lighter" (not so stressful and nervewracking) with more "fanciful" combat, like crazy spells and shit like that. If anybody knows of a game like this please tell me. Like Monster Hunter Tri I guess, which has co-op too I believe. I want this game!! If dragon's dogma had co-op it'd be perfect, because the irritating nature of the problems would, at least for me, disappear if I could do it all with a friend (or multiple friends).
Like another game we play a lot (not so much recently) is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. It's fun enough on its' own, but being able to just chill with microphones and chat while we fight things is really nice.
was really interested in dragons dogma way back when it was first announced since it indeed looked like a monster hunter/demon souls type deal
but i guess all the talk of lame story/world and wrpg elements turned me off, i'll download the demo though to see for myself if its at least fun
So basically what i want is a ps3 monster hunter......
online-enabled co-op games are great. if only i had.....fr..i.e..n.ds....
when we gonna play dark souls you fool
Yeah Mass Effect 1 had a lot of good story elements. To bad its combat was kind of a pain.
yea ME1 was way better for me than 2, disagreers gonna disagree but i liked the equips stuff and exploring planets (like that one time when you stumble upon some kind of monolith and there's like a paragragh text description of you trippin balls as you travel through time and space or w/e) and i was much more enthralled with it than me2I haven't played ME3 yet either. Going to when its both cheap and I've also already worked a decent way through my backlog.
still havent played me3, am not planning to until it hits bargain bin (read: steam sale) prices
I needed to remind myself why I still play games, so I reinstalled Tyrian 2000 and gave it another whirl. Searched up the soundtrack on Google and happened upon what appears to be Dada's Youtube channel, so here I am again.:) :) :)
hell yeah. it's a small world or it's a small MIRACLE, choose your fate......Salt World.... funny name for a planet.....
Ugh. IDK if I'd like the timed conversation idea... I already bought the game ages ago though for like 5 bucks I think so I'll obviously eventually play it but I like to be able to think out what I'm going to say/do.
It seems like a nice idea in theory (to me, anyway), but you're still choosing between the same three personality types (suave, professional, and ruthless, or something along those lines) each time, so you can still play through the game with a specific character type in mind, which kind of defeats the purpose to me but isn't really any worse than any other game that focuses on decision making like that.In what I have played so far(finished the first major area, probably gonna start over though since I got the bug that makes it so I can't use any of my abilities...), I don't think that's true. Sure you can just be Suave the whole time or something, but to actually accomplish things in the game you have to judge what choice is the best response to a person, depending on their attitude and what is happening at the time. Not to mention, making people dislike you can apparently have positive effects as well. ...idk that's just one of the parts of the game I've really liked(so far), as oppose to, says, ME where I just picked paragon 90% of the time and called it a day.
In what I have played so far(finished the first major area, probably gonna start over though since I got the bug that makes it so I can't use any of my abilities...), I don't think that's true. Sure you can just be Suave the whole time or something, but to actually accomplish things in the game you have to judge what choice is the best response to a person, depending on their attitude and what is happening at the time. Not to mention, making people dislike you can apparently have positive effects as well. ...idk that's just one of the parts of the game I've really liked(so far), as oppose to, says, ME where I just picked paragon 90% of the time and called it a day.
I found Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition at a used bookstore for 5 dollars. I have spent most of my free time in the past 3 days playing it. I think the game is really fun, but the story is completely mediocre. I look forward to trying out some modules once I've played through the main campaign. I might even try to make one.NWN is a cool game. it'll take ya forever to play through all the campaigns tho...
God I wish I had some money so I could buy LA Noire on steam for 5 bucks. :/
i really liked bastion, even though i could've done w/out the narrator gimmick (it's sort of silly and sentimental imo)
from a mechanics standpoint though it's an awesome game. i love the way it handles greater risk / greater reward by giving you the option to increase difficulty in a granular fashion by selecting different gods.
The dialogue options seem pretty off as they don't always match what Guybrush says and a lot of the time you get 4 of the same option but worded differently.have you played a monkey island game before
I'm sort of surprised at how I've put a grand total of 306 hours into Team Fortress 2 so far, and I still like it and regularly play it. Maybe it's because I've recently started getting better at it.
I once did like 45 straight kills as a scout. It's the only time I've been good at a video game. As I always mention when I talk about this game though, it's all stupid now so I don't play it anymore.That is really good. I never play as Scout because I'm terrible at it. I'm only really good at Soldier and Engineer (record: 60 kills, 10936 damage) and all the others I'm just mediocre at. Scout and Spy are the ones I play the least.
That is really good. I never play as Scout because I'm terrible at it. I'm only really good at Soldier and Engineer (record: 60 kills, 10936 damage) and all the others I'm just mediocre at. Scout and Spy are the ones I play the least.
I actually really like the whole items garbage, I think it does really expand the tactical considerations you have to make for a game.
I think there talking about the useless hats.
have you played a monkey island game beforeYes, an obscene amount of times. I meant that this happens like ALL THE TIME (seriously, like every other dialogue tree) instead of used as the occasional joke.
\And the game sometimes feels like a massive team game of rock-paper-scissors.To some degree it is although you can competently fight against any class with any other class if you know what you're doing. But that's why it's necessary to have a well-balanced team to rely on, otherwise it's rock-paper-scissors and you're likely to lose.
And the game sometimes feels like a massive team game of rock-paper-scissors.
Isn't this a good thing? I mean you say that like it detracts from the game, if it weren't just a rock-paper-scissors game then you'd have OP classes and unbalanced play. I mean the fact that it feels like rock-paper-scissors means they have the balance right. I thought that was the whole point of TF2.
Isn't this a good thing? I mean you say that like it detracts from the game, if it weren't just a rock-paper-scissors game then you'd have OP classes and unbalanced play. I mean the fact that it feels like rock-paper-scissors means they have the balance right. I thought that was the whole point of TF2.The disadvantage is you can't always play how you want to play (that is, if you're smart). But yeah I'd say that this is a good thing overall. Every class has a specific function and situation in which they're useful. The balance isn't perfect, but it's pretty decent.
But on the other hand, you are much more likely to reach cases where your ability to win a stage is entirely reliant on the decisions other people make on your team. That is to say, there are cases where the team you are on is so unbalanced, no matter what class you switch to you can still tell your team will lose outright before the round is even halfway done. Along with other cases, your team is doing so well together and has class match-ups that are superior enough that it doesn't matter if you are even afk or not, you can tell your team is still going to dominate the round and win outright regardless of how you decide to contribute.I agree 100% with your analysis, but the conclusion sounds a little pessimistic to me. I think you can still make a pretty big difference. If you switch to the right class at the right time, you can actually single-handedly turn around a match. Sometimes all you need is one Engineer to put a teleporter at the right place. Or a Medic to prepare an übercharge right before a big push. In my experience, people prefer to play as their favorite class (few people make good switches) but the favorites are rather evenly divided, so in most cases it works out balance-wise. Most unbalanced matches I play are probably due to bad players.
In either case, what you decide to do matters very little. It can matter more if you start getting better scores with a wider variety of classes, but it is most entirely dependent on how good your teammates are at viewing the map's action as a whole, and how that impacts the decisions they make in supporting (or lack thereof) their other teammates.
For instance, in a lot of maps, I can tell that the defending team is going to be at an insurmountable disadvantage if an engineer isn't actively working to hold the team's overall position.The thing I hate the most in this world are Engineers who just sit in the base and stare at their lv3 sentry while the rest of the team is off fighting on the front lines. Don't do that, ever. Even if you're on a CTF map. When I play on Turbine, I set up my sentry at the top of the stairs (because the other side tends to be overrepresented) and I go play Engiknight for the rest of my time.
But if I am on one of these maps, and there are no engineers on my team, I often still play a different class knowing full well my team is doomed to lose. I play that class far too often on those maps because I know it's needed, which makes me not want to play it on those specific maps because I feel tied down into constantly doing the same stuff whenever I am on them.Yeah, that's a dilemma. Some people are better players than the rest (or at least SMARTER) and they know what a team needs, so they'll probably feel more obliged to switch classes strategically. Personally I don't mind switching too much, I like playing all classes except Spy.
Plus when I am the only engineer and I am serving an important role, then I am guaranteed to find someone on the other team to switch classes just to target me specifically (which is an entirely correct decision to make on their part). This is particularly frustrating when by successfully doing my job in fortifying a crucial position, the rest of the team just charges ahead to score more kills, not only leaving my position with 0 support whatsoever, but also often putting them in a position that makes it easier for them to die than if they had just held back and waited for the enemy to come to them instead.Agree 100%. Thankfully sometimes a Pyro will stay back for Spy checks and the like. GENERALLY though it's the right decision for the defending team to move the front lines back to the attacking base.
replaying final fantasy 8. i don't even remember the last time i've played it for any serious length of time. possibly ten years.Looking forward to this because I recently started playing this game again (even though I've now shelved it, mostly because the area around my psx is a complete mess) and I still love it. The story/writing too, particularly given the format and the general standards of the genre. It's one of the few non-obnoxious jrpgs.
i'm actually kinda surprised how much i still like this game. the story itself doesn't really work for me quite like it did when i was younger, but i still really like the way the game works, and a lot of the choices they made.
will probably make some wall of text here about this game when i'm finished, even if it is against my better judgment
Looking forward to this because I recently started playing this game again (even though I've now shelved it, mostly because the area around my psx is a complete mess) and I still love it. The story/writing too, particularly given the format and the general standards of the genre. It's one of the few non-obnoxious jrpgs.
Can someone keep me up to date with rpg maker games. I mean with the new rpgmakers surely there's some games that are worth playing.
All I have played for a while now is pinball...
Pinball...
PINBALL...
i don't know if this is something i'd suggest to a lot of people, but i liked it. it's kinda fun how the game's fighting and running around and blowing shit up will kinda get you in the moment, and then follow it up with reason to hate yourself for ever finding yourself excited by the game in the first place. a couple times i stared blankly at the screen, asking WHY THE FUCK DO I EVEN BOTHER, which is exactly what they wanted me to think. there's a lot of really hypercynical people who post here, so probably it's worth your time if the idea of a morbid/upsetting videogame sounds like being something up your alley. if that doesn't sound like the sort of game for you, then you DEFINITELY are the sort of person that needs to play this game: you have it too fucking easy and should go work in a saltmine or something, learn the true meaning of disappointment, and hopefully realize that if there is a god he actively dislikes you and will probably reincarnate you as an intestinal parasite, but only if you're lucky and amend your ways now and try taking some steps towards being something other than some gigantic fucking drag on the human race.
yea this is what i have been hearing, i might give it a shot if i can rent it and one run through multiplayer is <10hrs or somethingi didn't touch the multiplayer, but i don't think it took me even 8 hours to get through campaign mode, although i wasn't keeping track. not unacceptably short, but not something that you really need to invest a ton of time into. you should be able to rent it and finish it.
Whoa, that has changed since I last looked at it, it does look really cool! When i saw it it was just a couple rows of posts with a bit of text (date or something?). This is neat, although I keep my browser kinda narrow I guess because it's kind of cut off on the right. Are they just taking random/timed screenshots, or are you doing them manually? It definitely seemed like the posting was automated, but I can imagine you hooking it up to a "take screenshot" keypress or something.Maybe you viewed it while I was changing something, that would be the non-JS look (people without JS please Get The Heck Out Of My Tumblr). Or it might have been the free theme that I was using before.
Several times now I've had a mission like "find the coldest point in Arkham City" and this temperature gauge shows up showing the temperature, and whenever you walk it gives a HOT OR COLD arrow showing whether you're going in the right direction. I have to say it's actually better than a GO TO THE SPOT ON YOUR MINIMAP that requires no thinking, even if it's vague and irritating at times.
be prepared to experience many more disappointments as you complete what quests oblivion has to offerjames jo' the times...
Edit: reminds me of the dude from ages past who was boasting about creating an RPG Maker 2k game with 1,000 hours of gameplay and someone joked that it would consist of the player locked in a bare room for 1,000 hours until the door unlocked and the game ends.
i'm playing through deus ex: HR right now, and it's sort of good. i think it's missing something that the original had. i'm at the second hub-world and already feeling sort of fatigued.it would have been better if it was just DEUS EX: HUMAN RESOURCES and was just a short 5 hour game about jc denton wandering sullenly around the office complaining that he can't get direct deposit set up
going to be playing a remake of death rally hope it's good.It is AMAZING.
going to be playing a remake of death rally hope it's good.They remade Death Rally????
are there any good old strategy games i could pirate that have people who play online? i want to play against real people. anything like age of empires 2 or something?Yes! Warcraft II is downloadable here: http://server.war2.ru/modules/news/ you can play it via Battle.net. I tried it myself, it works perfectly without requiring a CD key or anything. Basically it's modified so that it connects to a custom server if I'm not mistaken.
i wouldn't say that - i mean it does try to emulate the original game alot, but gameplay wise it is a lot different really. simpler, less crazy, but tighter. i mean the original is 12 years old, so
but in terms of the depth of it, in all aspects, and the apparent intelligence level of the designers, it isn't really in the same category at all. i thought it was pretty fun, though.
Dead Rising 2.
What happened to the photograph taking?
No, I'm sure I saw that on Xbox Arcade though maybe! I've heard the name of the game like a lot, but I know jack shit about it. I will CHECK IT OUT!!!!
(PS: haha yes, like all I do is work and game, and I don't even do the former now it's the summer holidays ;_; )
They remade Death Rally????
I'm going through a period where I think about games and imagine what kind of games I would like to play if they really existed much more than I am actually playing them.
YOU DROWNED
However, the fairies have turned you into a water-baby.
GOOD END
you should both make topics >:^|that's funny, I thought they were for entertainment and social commentary. And with a Name Like Rat Chaos of course it was horrible. I know plenty of other games that are good.
videogames turn out to actually be a covert attempt to annihilate the entertainment industry by making infuriatingly banal things with just enough lingering sense of missed potential to spur the player into thinking about what could have been and thus heroically transforming them from passive spectators into engaged alert citizens of tomorrow
on reflection the last game i played was RAT CHAOS (http://mu-foundation.org/games/2012-07-18%20Rat%20Chaos/ratchaos.html)
Why don't you play on PS3 man?!?! The PC port is cool and I'll be buying it anyway, but the PS3 version is awesome I don't know why you'd play the PC version when you have the PS3 available. Also anecdotally the community on the PS3 will be far better than the PC, no doubt. The 360 version already suffers from easily hacking the saves so you can have 99 in all stats at souls level 1, with 99 Divine Blessings and shit. The PC version will no doubt have tons of hackers and other bullshit.
Play on PS3 YOU FOOL! If you're just trying to save money (PC version is like $40 I think with all the new content, whereas you'd have to buy the DLC for the new content on consoles) I'll fuckin buy it for you man, not even joking.
Also, grats on Demon's Souls. That game is definitely harder than Dark Souls and a true achievement. I still haven't beat it yet, haven't even got that far, my brother and I are slowly making our way through it, but it's daunting.
I thought that game looked fun. I've made way too many posts about bloody good time but it kinda reminds me of that
But as far as FPS games go I pretty much only play Gotham City Imposters, because it's as good as any FPS really (it actually plays almost exactly like COD, at least COD when it was still good (MW and MW2)) but it has a bunch of silly/fun stuff (like freeze guns and spring boots and gliders and crap like that). My brother and I play that quite often, it's fun.
I played it. It's terrible. Total garbage, honestly.Wait, MW3 or CS:GO? I initially figured MW3 but thinking about it I'm not completely sure that is what you were saying.
Why is CS:GO total garbage?
Well for one thing it doesn't work the way any FPS game works. You can't aim down the sights, which is just weird. All the buttons are kind of strange (pressing L1 takes out your knife, and you have to press triangle to get your gun again). Movement feels very float and imprecise. It just didn't feel good to play. It's like playing on the PC with mouse smoothing, everything just feel wrong. I imagine most of my complaints would be invalidated if I played with a keyboard and mouse, but that's dumb, why would I play KBM with a console? I dunno, I thought it was trash. I played like 10 rounds and then deleted the game.Lacking ADS (Aim Down Sights) is a necessity for counter strike. Namely because that's become sort of part of the way counter strike is played. Which is something I'm torn about. I actually prefer having the ability to ADS but most would argue that it isn't counter strike with ADS. Just like Halo wouldn't be Halo with ADS.
Might be worth playing on the PC (In fact I think it's cross platform, so you could play a game with people from PC, XBOX and PS3 at the same time, which is "neat" but definitely not worth buying a game for), but not on consoles, it's awful.
edit: also I should note that I took a couple percocets yesterday and those tend to make me think everything is terrible so while it might not be as "garbage" as I first thought, I don't think it's very good at all.
how's HAWX i love flyin planes
Yeah I preordered it a while ago. I'll definitely be playing this weekend, helping people out with co-op.
Also considering I've played it on a PS3 controller, using the 360 controller on the PC is weird. I feel like the normally-bad L/R button on the PS3 (like the L2/R2 being terrible rounded buttons instead of nice triggers) actually help in the game, as you tend to "roll" between the two (both L and R) rather than using L2/R2 as a "trigger", like in an FPS or something. Just kinda strange. Also while I think technically the sticks are superior on the 360 in how they're designed and how they feel, once you've gotten used to the PS3 controller it just feels weird and has a strange adjustment period.
use your ps3 controller + MotionInJoy 360 controller emulation. http://www.motioninjoy.com/download (http://www.motioninjoy.com/download)
all the controls were exactly like demons souls for me (though yea that's not gonna change that the dumb context icons are all based on the 360 controller), i didnt even have to reassign anything. its beautiful
Oblivion still. Playing through the last Thieves Guild Quest. Getting a little weary of going through really long dungeons full of loot I can't carry near the end.I don't know if everyone agrees with me, but at least my friends and I thought the Thieves Guild questline was the best part of Oblivion. I thought the way you're kept in the dark about why you're getting those items and the payoff, as well as the last dungeon were really great. Skyrim's Thieves Guild questline is just so mediocre it's sad.
What gift did you choose when making your character?
In the run-up to the initial release of Dark Souls, Miyazaki recommended that players pick the Pendant as their starting gift at the beginning of the game. Since launch almost all the game's secrets have been revealed by the active user community, but true purpose of the Pendant remains obscure. (http://www.videogamer.com/pc/dark_souls/news/dark_souls_i_will_never_explain_the_pendant_says_miyazaki.html)
How graphics card intensive/CPU intensive is the game? I'm still using my old mbp from 2008 (2.4c2d with 8600GT 256mb) for everything. Like its running skyrim and everything fine at native resolution, but I get the feeling from screenshots/etc that I've seen of dark souls that it is probably a lot more intensive than something like skyrim or ME3.
Goldenratio, how do you partner up with specific people? Is it just a matter of spamming your soul sign on the ground where a friend would be waiting or is their another method I dont know about?
pretty sure the pendant is just a troll.
also I don't think I've expressed this before so I just want to hop aboard the dark souls train and say it's the best game I've played in years. no question.
edit: basically I'm cosigning with goldenratio on this one. everything he's been saying is correct. I don't know if he's mentioned this specifically, but the game has a very interesting approach to narrative that I wish more games would pursue. the whole thing is great. everybody play it.
pendant is cool pls dont hate. im only letting u off the hook because of the rest of your post
I bet probably 50% of people accidentally killed Oswald after ringing the first bell. Dude just comes outta nowhere.
no you know the guy who absolves you of your sins, in the building after the gargoyles. When you go up the ladders to ring the bell, after you come down he suddenly appears there. This guy: http://darksouls.wikidot.com/oswald-of-carim
haha man your reading comprehension is terrible dday.
No what I mean is that my first post was making a joke, that "probably 50% of people accidentally kill him" because he just pops up out of nowhere and startles people. I know why he exists, that has nothing to do with anything. Also you seem to be under the impression that my post was directed at you like "you killed this guy" and that wasn't what I was saying at all. The reason I say your comprehension is bad is because it's not even confusing, nothing indicated that I was saying something about you specifically. It's ok dday no judgements you know.
Also technically you can't kill Frampt. You can hit him once to wake him up and do that stuff, and if you keep attacking him he'll just do that thing where he says you aren't the chosen one and then leaves.
havent touched a game in a good 2 weeks but i've had plenty of game dev ideasAre you an 'idea guy'?
correlation or causation???? you decide
Are you an 'idea guy'?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity) HOLY FUCKING SHIIIIITT, the BG-era rpg the Obsidian dream-team is making raised 800 000 dollars in a fucking (first!) DAY. Look at the fucking reward system to donations. Look at it, holy shit. The taverns are ALREADY SOLD OUT, there's max of 20 player/custom made npc's to get in the game. perverse, brilliant, PERVERSE, steve jobbs ghost looks amazed...!if u know bonzi u know even this is a restrained post...
And tbh im pretty fucking excited since these guys seem to know what really mattered in that era of RPG's. don't have lots of money to drop on this though, groan no 10000dollars then... but I'd like to support these guys anyways despite the end-result so i'll drop in the 20 dollars.
if u know bonzi u know even this is a restrained post...my emotions? right now?
yeahh i remember what hundley wrote about planescape: torment and that seemed hella bad. But i'm gonna trust that these guys just want to do What They Want (*chris avellone rips apart dragonage 3 script in front of him* NO MORE FUCKING HOT ELF BABE EASY ROMANCES!!! FUUUUCCCCKKK!!!!!)thats aerie man
guild war 2,Guild Wars 2 is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game and is the sequel to the episodic Guild Wars game series.I love this game .yeah well who the fuck asked you?
trying to balance between playing the game and roleplaying the game. Blegh. It's fun.
literally all i did in this game was roleplay it. i did almost none of the quest and did not fight a single dragon. i basically just played it as a SURVIVAL/ADVENTURE SIMULATORYou didn't miss much.
You didn't miss much.
I actually pretty much felt that the first Borderlands was pretty shallow mechanically. And I ended up doing side quests when I should not have because it made the game boringly easy. I went in with a completionist attitude which ruined the game for me.
another story flaw is why is the new-U stations (owned and operated by Hyperion) bring you back to life when your going against Hyperion. Maybe they should of put a different company behind New-U Stations.i believe the saying goes "when we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope"
i believe the saying goes "when we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope"
although i seriously doubt anybody had put that much thought into it.
anyway, i finished borderlands 2 and didn't wait until the credits had finished running before listing it on ebay. it's just a terrible goddamn game. unusually terrible, possibly the worst-written videogame i've ever played. i would say it rivals people like dane cook and carlos mencia in the TOTAL FAILURE TO BE FUNNY ON ANY LEVEL DESPITE TRYING REALLY HARD department.
learning to play ultima 4 on dosbox on android ( l o l).. it's p fun except i keep having to cover up half the screen with a lil keyboard and u know how it is with giant transparent arrows over the whole game and everything.hale yeah?? HALE HITLER... where ya been ya fucker...!
I traded in skyrim and mass effect 3, two really boring games, for catherine and saints row the third. i am fully expecting catherine to be awful but i'm curious about in exactly what kind of ways (although the broad strokes are obvious) and i heard saints row the third was supposed to be good or something so i figured i'd give it a shot since i like open world games set in cities. i wanted to get silent hill downpour but the place didn't have it so i guess i'll get that one in a few months.
I'll be back with harsh take no prisoners crits,motherfuckers
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lootdrop/an-old-school-rpg-by-brenda-brathwaite-and-tom-hal (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lootdrop/an-old-school-rpg-by-brenda-brathwaite-and-tom-hal)I love how they seriously say "Old school RPG" like once every two seconds in their video. I think that project is kind of doomed though. It barely has more money than it did the day it launched.
I gave them my money because Jeff Hall.
I gave them my money because Tom Hall.correct me if i'm wrong but i'm PRETTY CERTAIN everything good about games that Tom Hall worked on was made by people other than Tom Hall. Except dopefish.
correct me if i'm wrong but i'm PRETTY CERTAIN everything good about games that Tom Hall worked on was made by people other than Tom Hall. Except dopefish.you know the industry is bad when you can probably honestly give him credit for what he didn't do, and that was fucking up anachronox. if that's the sort of game that's OK on his watch, then he's probably one of the good ones.
John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch....Suck it down (TM)He will never live this down.
As Spector had mentioned, an insurance company got the rights to System Shock after Looking Glass Studios shut down. I tracked down the insurer, Star Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Michigan-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc., and confirmed that the rights are available for sale.Was kind of excited then:
It sounds to me like Meadowbrook wants a game company to share sales revenue, but Borkowski wouldn't talk about financial details. He did say that there have been inquiries about the rights, but elaborated no further.
We need a kickstarter to buy the rights to System Shock back.but who would actually make it? give it to warren spector and it'll be MICKEY SHOCK, give it to ken levine and it'll just be another high school-level political theory essay. i'm not really able to name anyone in the industry capable of doing system shock again, particularly the guys that got lucky once with it.
you know the industry is bad when you can probably honestly give him credit for what he didn't do, and that was fucking up anachronox. if that's the sort of game that's OK on his watch, then he's probably one of the good ones.i don't understand what you mean this is a confusing post
new xcom is REALLY goodyeah it fuckin is
woah how do you do that???? i would totally be doing thatSadly you must have preordered the game to get that option. though i think you also get it if you got the first copies of the game that came out? idk. might be(hopefully free) dlc later.
I just set up Shenmue. I've never played it before. It's obviously extremely stilted, and judging by the first 20 minutes possibly quite boring in that really bland way games based on interaction can sometimes be. I'm gonna play a bunch more of it, though. It could get good.
I just set up Shenmue. I've never played it before. It's obviously extremely stilted, and judging by the first 20 minutes possibly quite boring in that really bland way games based on interaction can sometimes be. I'm gonna play a bunch more of it, though. It could get good.
Today I'm wondering how you can have a decent gaming PC and it still not be able to play GTAIV really well.
I'm already beginning to enjoy it. First, I went around the town racially profiling the chinese, and now I'm on a midnight sailor hunt down at the local jazz bar. That's where the sailors like to kick back, according to absolutely everyone in town. I'm the only one who didn't know. I feel like a square.
Me + my girlfriend are about to start the same theme park level on RCT at the same time and compete. This could make or break the relationship.
Edit: She kicked my ass. Double company value, no loan and 200 more park rating at the end of Forest Frontiers.
Edit2: We're doing bumbly beach later (the park) so TIPS and SUGGESTIONS before I go cry in a corner
I assume you are talking to me?Scratch all that I'm a dummy.
I'm actually running it on PS2 hardware. I bought the physical disc at a garage sale for $1 (and plan to resell on amazon once I beat it at a slight profit... assuming someone buys it)
But that isn't to say I haven't played through an entire PS2 game on an emulator before. I beat NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 on an emulator a long while back. I'm pretty sure I used PCSX2 with some adjustments to the 'speed' settings or something like that. Of course some games are impossible to run. I tried playing another racing game, the original Midnight Club, and was not successful.
I won the next RCT-off. Dynamite Dunes. Ended with a company value of 100K, 1300 guests and a park rating of 999.
She's started practising behind my back whilst I'm at work now. 1-1.
haha shit I didn't even realize that I was posting four posts after the one I was trying to reply to
but yeah I was trying to ask jamie about the DC emulator so ANSWER ME JAMIE
hotline miami is really incredible. such a fun games with soundtrack is good.you as well, huh? what am i not seeing?
you as well, huh? what am i not seeing?on a very base level the game is incredible fun. the pumping music fantastic art style and fast paced gameplay just meld perfectly.
Costume Quest is great. steam sales do get me to splurge on games
where's tristero btw did someone chase him off
Anyone very disappointed with they way Elder Scrolls: Online looks?I am, instead of feeling like an elderscrolls game but as an MMO, it feels like an MMO set in the elderscrolls universe if that makes any sense. Personally, I'm waiting for Elserscrolls online mod to become more viable as THAT is pretty much how I see elserscrolls as an MMO. Speaking of MMO's, I want more info on World of Darkness, I'm so happy that it's CCP that are making with there no nonsense take on it, I like EVE becuase of how hard it is and I'm glad that WOD is going the same way. Also, Does no one care that there is now a zombie surival MMO out?
I suppose I never cared anyway. Never even played an MMO before and I probably would not have bothered with one just because it was a Elder Scrolls title.
I am, instead of feeling like an elderscrolls game but as an MMO, it feels like an MMO set in the elderscrolls universe if that makes any sense.Pretty much precisely how I feel.
Pretty much precisely how I feel.
that might be good since elderscrolls sucks to me.BLASPHOMY SPOKEN BY A BLASPHEMOR!
BLASPHOMY SPOKEN BY A BLASPHEMOR!
nah i Kid, elderscrolls have always had problems but they've always been a good game series.
Though I thought it funny when my Zelda obsessed friends got pissed over the fact that GTA4 dethroned Ocarina of Time as the highest reviewed game of all time.
From what I've heard you're severely gimped and don't have many options, basically limiting you only one or two of the special abilities. And you aren't rewarded for it either, at least not in a way that makes it worth it. I haven't played the game so I don't remember a lot of specifics, but it's usually mentioned in most reviews. I think this one talks about it a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrM3RI0a4I&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrM3RI0a4I&feature=plcp) somewhere in the first half.
Basically you should probably play a non-stealth playthrough first, since you're more likely to enjoy that if you enjoy it at all, and do a stealth playthrough afterward to avoid spoiling the game outright.
huh whatSee my post immediately before that. Unless you are actually confused as to what I have referring to, on this page (http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html), GTA4 was above Ocarina of Time for a few months or so. Reviews slowly trickled out for GTA4 and began bringing it down, explaining its current placement under ocarina again.
The last game I played (and completed) is Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
I don't quite understand how they can get such good production values on a console game that make PC games look relatively stone age. If you consider a PS3 has 256MB of RAM and a pair of 7900GTs (equivalent) it's miraculous. Never played a game which has practically zero loading time between game scenes so much so that there's just a horizontal swipe across the screen in changing scenes like a movie transition.
They pretty much followed the same formula as Uncharted 2 but that wasn't a bad thing, it was a truly enjoyable game and one of the reasons I'm glad I got a PS3 over an 360 (That and Metal Gear Solid 4).
The last game I played (and completed) is Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
I don't quite understand how they can get such good production values on a console game that make PC games look relatively stone age. If you consider a PS3 has 256MB of RAM and a pair of 7900GTs (equivalent) it's miraculous. Never played a game which has practically zero loading time between game scenes so much so that there's just a horizontal swipe across the screen in changing scenes like a movie transition.
They pretty much followed the same formula as Uncharted 2 but that wasn't a bad thing, it was a truly enjoyable game and one of the reasons I'm glad I got a PS3 over an 360 (That and Metal Gear Solid 4).
Does Deus Ex:HR have a lot of bosses? That's something I'd actually support. I love boss battles, if they are done right.
HR does not do bosses right. idk if you've ever played the original Deus Ex, but the moment I realized I truly loved the game was when I snuck in a back way to the the room where this dude who's been pumped up the entire game as your equal is sitting. the dude is an augmented soldier who's bad as fuck, and it's been signposted multiple times that you're going to have trouble with him. instead i went in through an air duct i had no idea lead to that room, saw the guy sitting in the center of it, and shot him in the head with my upgraded sniper rifle. that was cool.
in deus ex the first boss is this idiotic dude who you have to lure near exploding barrels and then shoot the barrels (there are other more tedious ways to kill him, but the barrels are the quickest). imagine a zelda boss with a flashing weakpoint, and then imagine it done poorly.
there aren't a lot of bosses, but there are enough where it's a serious pain in the ass any time you have to fight one since it totally takes you out of the game.
Well really I meant that the boss isn't "Bad Guy with larger HP bar" or something. I can see why the example you give could be tedious though.
HR does not do bosses right. idk if you've ever played the original Deus Ex, but the moment I realized I truly loved the game was when I snuck in a back way to the the room where this dude who's been pumped up the entire game as your equal is sitting. the dude is an augmented soldier who's bad as fuck, and it's been signposted multiple times that you're going to have trouble with him. instead i went in through an air duct i had no idea lead to that room, saw the guy sitting in the center of it, and shot him in the head with my upgraded sniper rifle. that was cool.
in deus ex the first boss is this idiotic dude who you have to lure near exploding barrels and then shoot the barrels (there are other more tedious ways to kill him, but the barrels are the quickest). imagine a zelda boss with a flashing weakpoint, and then imagine it done poorly.
there aren't a lot of bosses, but there are enough where it's a serious pain in the ass any time you have to fight one since it totally takes you out of the game.
One thing if you guys don't know: the boss battles in DE:HR were outsourced to another development studio, that's why the bosses seem so much different gameplay-wise from the rest of the game, and why for the most part you just run-n-gun them.
Think I remember reading about this somewhere, why would a gaming company do this? creating boss battles really much different from creating the rest of the game?looool that's awesome, didn't know they could do that (outsourcing parts-shit), ahhahah. also dumbo it's obv- u don't have to pay for a designer to make 'em.
ugh I bought dear esther and portal 2 for $2.50 and $5. I hate video games. I'm gross.
I bet dear esther will be part of bundle 7 too
I'd both agree and disagree. I've bought a couple of bundles that included games I'm not incredibly interested in. but the vast majority (98% or so) of games I plan on completing. AND WILL.
steam is an inherently gross experience. it's the strangest bit of late capitalism, where this jubilee culture erupts around the ability to purchase digital copies of games that you will never play for cheap.
Yeah I'm kind of OCD...
Probably an exception...
Don't you have a game pad?
Huh, guess I'm lucky, I just have to plug it in and most games auto recognise my 360 pad.I'm thinking you didn't read it all the way. He's not using a 360 but another controller some games only read the 360 so he had a program that will make his controller look like a 360.
I finally got around to beating Ratchet and Clank. Fantastic game.
I tried starting up the first Jak and Daxter but the disc I bought at a garage sale is too scratched up. Wasted a dollar.
So I'm starting the Second Ratchet and Clank. First thing I noticed: did they change the voice actor for Ratchet? Also I can actually STRAFFE in this one, so it feels more like a proper shooter. In fact it's balance of platform vs shooter has largely switched.
OK, Ratchet and Clank 2 is seriously 10x better than the original and the original was already very very good.
The only part that I think is kind of weak is the space ship combat. Too easy and slow, basically:
1) turbo boost a bit
2) turn around
3) fire lasers
4) repeat, don't worry about getting hit, maybe dodge asteroids.
The racing and hacking parts are HARD AS FUCK but they are fun and that arena thing early on was awesome. Level design is largely just as good as the original, Boss fights are common and all done very very well.
The weapon upgrade system both encourages you to use all the weapons (to get their power upgrade) and to explore (weapon mods bought with platinum bolts)
The game is just exquisite. It is thus far my favorite 3D platformer now... and its only the second game, its old as hell. WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING
Nope, the PS2 games, in this case Going Commando. Not the future series. I wanted to play the originals before moving on to the future series. I got the first 3 games at a garage Sale for 3 dollars.
I actually got "A Crack in Time" for PS3 from the only convention I've ever gone to (me being awful at bartering I'm pretty sure I was ripped off). Though, its currently unplayed.
dark souls is so fucking hard ;_; i really like it tho
http://kotaku.com/5966786/here-is-dark-souls-iis-debut-trailer (http://kotaku.com/5966786/here-is-dark-souls-iis-debut-trailer) (skip to 2:26)
omg omg
serious sam is a good game for running at 60 mph, jumping 20 feet in to the air, and killing a lot of shitYeah thus far its been pretty fun. Very reminiscent of Quake 1, 2, and 3 gameplay-wise. Sam himself reminding me of Duke Nukem.
Completed Saints Row 3....
I'm playing too right now bc I bought some of the DLC (gangstas in space, purple ops). I'd suggest co-op but I'm on PS3 and I think you're playing the computer version
I am downloading Anachronox from GoG.com as it was on offer the other day.yessssssss
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As for me, I spent the first 4 days of my winter break playing the new XCOM for 16 hours a day. That game is fucking awesome. Too bad I got kinda burned out on it from playing it so much.
i remember playing the original dos whatever x com is it like that? that game was p sweet except it was super hard when i was 7Yes and no. Same premise, more streamlined, less difficult/complex, but in a good way since they got rid of a lot of "fluff".
I just got done playing Spent, and I've been making some headway on...Yeah I beat SR3 on PC and with all of the DLC. Thanks to DDay who bought it for me.
QuoteCompleted Saints Row 3....Well, I'll be damned. I was right about to mention I'm getting somewhere on that game. You completed it with DLC, right?QuoteI'm playing too right now bc I bought some of the DLC (gangstas in space, purple ops). I'd suggest co-op but I'm on PS3 and I think you're playing the computer versionI'm on the PC version of Saints Row the Third, too. But I totally recommend the Ethical Reality Climax DLC even for a console gamer. It's a lot of laughs if you have any sort of grasp on Japanese culture, and the challenges were pretty deadly in Hardcore difficulty with a low level character.
Yeah I beat SR3 on PC and with all of the DLC. Thanks to DDay who bought it for me.
The DLC was actually pretty good and I was OK with it not being the kind that continues the story but rather just expands with side stories.
SR3 spoilers:Spoiler (Click to reveal)WOOT SPOILER TAGS WORK!
I went to save shaundi at the end BTW. But I still can't help but feel like that second in command STAG chick was sort of right. That 'Boss' is pretty much a terrible person and the world would likely be better off without him/her BUT I think that the way she went about trying to prove it was wrong and psychotic.
I wonder which ending will end up being 'cannon' for the sequel, Saints Row 4. (which seems to exist in development currently)
whoa my boss char was the best person in the world idk what you're talking about.Saints Row 1-3 Spoilers:
Yeah I beat SR3 on PC and with all of the DLC. Thanks to DDay who bought it for me.
The DLC was actually pretty good and I was OK with it not being the kind that continues the story but rather just expands with side stories.
SR3 spoilers:Spoiler (Click to reveal)WOOT SPOILER TAGS WORK!
I went to save shaundi at the end BTW. But I still can't help but feel like that second in command STAG chick was sort of right. That 'Boss' is pretty much a terrible person and the world would likely be better off without him/her BUT I think that the way she went about trying to prove it was wrong and psychotic.
I wonder which ending will end up being 'cannon' for the sequel, Saints Row 4. (which seems to exist in development currently)Spoiler (Click to reveal)as said by someone itt a few months back, if you take the don't save shaundi route the game kind of gives you a "WELP you fucked up". it's more subtle than that, but it's not the fun party "good" ending. it's worth trying both endings though, for the extra mission
also I didn't think the STAG woman was supposed to be right. I mean, in terms of SR game morals. STAG was portrayed as a pretty awful organization, at least as bad as the Saints. I think the ending was more about misunderstanding/coming from opposing sides but actually being fundamentally the same (trying to build a perfect Saints world thru anarchy vs trying to bulldoze a perfect world via military takeover). if you play as a female char with the hispanic voiceset I think you get some different lines in the mission where you pose as Cyrus, and they kinda hint that the boss and the STAG lady come from similar bgs
Why the hell aren't you playing the Uncharted series!?
a friend of mine got me a copy of dota 2. Does anyone else play this? Personally, I've never been a big fan of RTS games, but I figure it's free so why not give it a shot.i don't play this but i used to play dota 1 (the original, wc3 mapmod) sometimes. it's a pr challenging/steep for a beginner so uh my best advice is that if you a. don't want the hate of the nerds/everyone and b. want to know at all what the FUCK is going on -> read some tutorials for beginners, choose a recommended easy melee hero, play some or lots of scenarios against computer...once you are ready, try your first game and become suprised at how unready you are after the computer skirsmish matches... hah hah...
I'm finally starting up Human Revolution. I'm wondering does lethality vs non-lethality effect story/ending in any way? I just want to get the 'good' end if it isn't particularly a pain in the ass to get.The game was just unmemorable enough to be kinda blurry looking back on it, but I'm reasonably certain that a save ten minutes before the end gets you all the endings.
What is more fun? Lethal or non-lethal?Again, blurry, but I'm pretty sure the most enjoyable way is generally a mix of both, basically whatever feels right for the location. I remember there being some sections where the stealth doesn't really work at all, to the point where I distinctly remember thinking that sticking religiously to an all-stealth, zero-kill playthrough would be insanely tiresome. But there were still a good deal of sections that were designed with stealth in mind, so you can probably still get through most of the game stealthy without it completely losing all fun. Just sticking to one or the other exclusively probably won't be particularly fun.
I play a lot of shooters, so 'lethal' would be what I'm used to, but I also can enjoy non-lethal stealth at times. Though usually I mix it up in game where you can go either route. It seems I can only go one route initially which is irritating. You'd think they'd give me all the standard lethal and non-lethal equipment and let be choose as I go.
has any one tried signing up for the sim city beta yet?someone on my twitter tried and gave up due to origin giving them way too much hassle
Playing Dark Chronicle. Got an item called "Carrot" with the description "when given as food, it will change the gender". Was disappointed to discover that it only works on fish.
edit: also you close time rifts by playing golf
I couldn't find Rogue Galaxy. I got Dragon Quest VIII coming in the mail at some point though. Dark Chronicle is definitely one of the most bizarre games I have played. I think it's a bit too time consuming for the good moments, but I enjoy the fact that the plot makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fifteen year old super rich urban planners with a monopoly on time travel reconfiguring the entire human population of the world in their builder-helicopter with a face run by grape-juice loving gnomes by the guidance of magic glowing magma eggs to change the future using resources they farmed from the dungeon. It's not something I could make up. From doing backflips to kill clowns with a wrench to your dad telling you that it's time you learned about mining and then giving you a gun that's also a trumpet and asking you to level grind it into gun that's also a bell. Doing trivial favours for people convinces them to move into your train permanently and live wherever you tell them to in your grand world plan. The world's greatest medical expert (also a duck) abandons the largest urban centre to treat one person. Dark chronicle easily has the most preposterous storyline of any game I have played.
I'm playing Ni no Kuni
I'm playing Ni no Kuni
Is it awesome? I really want it when it comes out here in NZ but I gotta pick and choose my games carefully since I'm short on money.
Also I have FF8 on my PS3 right now, and I really want to play FF9... I'm thinking of maybe just emulating that one though... I started a playthrough like a year ago, and I was grinding a ton and collecting everything and doing all the side stuff, and it froze right on the third disc or something. So I was like "man I'm not gonna play this shit for a long time". But now I want to.
I played through ff9 like last year I think? You are going to want a fast forward button the random encounters get very very bad. It's been awhile since I played any final fantasy besides that one but I think ff9 has to have the worst (highest) random encounter rate.
I'm playing Ni no Kuniganbatte dday. glad you make these btw.
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Also I still play dark souls. I play it off and on, but I like picking totally different armor/weapon sets and stuff, just making totally different characters. It's fun. Can't wait for Dark Souls 2. But I hope they change the name.
I'm playing Ni no Kuniganbatte dday. glad you make these btw.
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Another Earth.Think you have mixed up 'What are you Playing' with 'Last Movie you Watched'.
It was OK. I was hoping for way more sci-fi weirdness than I got.
In fact the vast majority of the movie largely plays out like a regular slow moving drama.
Another Earth.
It was OK. I was hoping for way more sci-fi weirdness than I got.
In fact the vast majority of the movie largely plays out like a regular slow moving drama.
I play way too much Path of Exile for any sane mind.Sounds like you should be playing disgaea games or makai kingdom.
Grinding all of those levels and watching numbers go up is like a weird cocaine addiction.
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sounds like that game has some daddy issues!!!are you my dad
I was looking at videos of Proteus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWs_RKXkyu0) and it got me to thinking what people picture when they imagine a video game.the_engineers_cry69, Hah Hah, no but it's actually nice to see a genuine Opposing Force...! Half Life...! like i'm totally for that n64 fog - hell but that doesn't mean game engy things are dead meat. i'd like to warn though that a knee-jerk reaction what would warrant to this - let's just focus excessively on gaming mechanics! - is itself a dangerous waters, covered in layers of sticky nerdy-gamer-cultural debris secretion where the opposite qualities are equally discriminated (and i'd argue even more so than the opposite, due to already technical-centered and -minded - culture of gamers and gaming itself).
I think there's a strain of conceptualizing games that doesn't understand how to put them together, and that's common with a lot of things, just thinking in general. You just have an idea, and it's vague, and you're happy with it until some force compels you to spell it out and then you see how undeveloped your thought is. Like I was posting in a Zelda thread and people were coming in and saying basically “yeah I'd like a Zelda that's basically, like, you can explore and the world is kind of open, and then maybe there's stuff to do”. I'm not fuming, and I don't think these people are stupid, it's just kind of funny to me when people take this vagueness out of their mind and they don't realize it's still incredibly vague when it hits the air and oxidizes. And then people will try to stretch out this opinion like it means something, this foggy idea of a game as an open place to explore and, then, stuff happens, I guess.
The continuing strain of this can I think be seen in indie games, where you have a rejection of open world objectives, which in light of games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, and other games like that, I don't think is unreasonable. A lot of games have open worlds and it just becomes dead space. But this indie reaction to that is in the same vein of that thinking, “we still have an open landscape with scenery in it, but instead of including tedious stuff let's just cut out gameplay altogether”, and that somehow makes the game more pure.
There's this incredible sophistication in board games, and all these rudimentary building blocks are exploding into being, and you have designers taking these things, having a firm grip on them, a firm idea of them, and combining them together to create a sort of gaming Renaissance. But video games are mired in this swamp, where the picture increasingly seems to come into view as being: “a game, at its ideal, is some kind of open space or something” and then it ends. It's just so unclear. And the implications are easy to see. Like, for example, chasing after movie qualities for validation and content filling essence. That's a symptom of this half-formed conception floating in people's minds, this interpretation covered up hazardously by N64 fog.
Darksiders. Not my kind of game but a friend bought it for me about 1-2 years ago and I feel guilty about not playing it.That is the final boss of the demo (I think? Giant bat?) and I literally spent half of an hour repeating the same 5 minutes of gameplay WITHOUT DYING. A SINGLE TIME.
Also I just hit the hardest boss in the game (according to the internet) and having a lot of trouble. Tiamat. Who's the first major boss fight.
the_engineers_cry69, Hah Hah, no but it's actually nice to see a genuine Opposing Force...! Half Life...! like i'm totally for that n64 fog - hell but that doesn't mean game engy things are dead meat. i'd like to warn though that a knee-jerk reaction what would warrant to this - let's just focus excessively on gaming mechanics! - is itself a dangerous waters, covered in layers of sticky nerdy-gamer-cultural debris secretion where the opposite qualities are equally discriminated (and i'd argue even more so than the opposite, due to already technical-centered and -minded - culture of gamers and gaming itself).Ha! At first I thought you were calling me condescending in my post. So whatever condescenment was in your post was, as you can imagine, a great relief after that.
maybe in this light you see why i don't see a problem with people (finally?) exploring the somewhat unexplored qualities in gaming, even though it's a bummer that people pick on the fad and fill it with their egoistic shit? condescenment in this post is unintentional, i could screen it thoroughly for that but nahhh not this time
While I agree that for a first major boss she was a bit much, the game has grown on me now that I've unlocked some new stuff. Namely I should point out that the game was too easy for the first 2-4 hours. And then got fairly frustrating which in hindisght was probably due to me buying the wrong upgrades. But now the game seems to have taken on (with a story introduced upgrade) "everything is difficult but in case things go really sour you have a trump card"Darksiders. Not my kind of game but a friend bought it for me about 1-2 years ago and I feel guilty about not playing it.That is the final boss of the demo (I think? Giant bat?) and I literally spent half of an hour repeating the same 5 minutes of gameplay WITHOUT DYING. A SINGLE TIME.
Also I just hit the hardest boss in the game (according to the internet) and having a lot of trouble. Tiamat. Who's the first major boss fight.
I guess I kept missing "the kill" or something but that is a really, really dumb thing to put in a video game. Eventually I should have gotten some kind of hint "hey, you have to press L2+Square+start twice when the bat lands to kill it".
Official verdict: Darksiders is a dum game.
finished knights of the old republic 2(with the restored content patch).shit dude, i gotta play this game at some point/soon so that i got something to gush about with you. idk if i told you this (i think i have) but i think this was the first game (i played it for short time) where i chose to kill this innocent guy (right at the beginning of a planet) just out of fear that he'd still tell everyone that i'm a jedi... i didn't like that the mentor scolded me for this (what??? isn't this a genuine possibility ya stupid hag??? graaagh!!!) but regardless i thought it was POSSIBLE and you know, it seemed that it would make the whole planet like HOSTILE or something. in kotor 1 it would had been logical to just let the guy live and you just never see him again/no consiquences whatsoever and +10 to hot loveinterest babe or fuck, +100 jackpot with all party members influence
i don't really know how i feel about this game. it's got these moments that are genuinely brilliant and well-executed, and other moments where you're just playing a videogame. part of that comes from the fact that it was handcuffed to the [dreadful in every way] star wars universe as well as the completely unplayable kotor system, so it's a bit of a miracle that it manages to actually be fairly legitimate despite some terrible baggage. but i guess i can't get over how great this game could have been without all of that. sure, they had problems with running out of time at the end, needing to cut some neat stuff, but even after having played it with a lot of that restored i'm more inclined to blame the imperfections on their predecessors than what happened at the end of their production schedule.
this is still probably one of the better rpgs of the past decade, but it could have been so much more. you rip the malignant fist of george lucas out of this and i think you have THE game of the last decade.
PS their misuse use of ed asner in this game is unforgivably bad. a game with a pretty fair assortment of interesting characters and they give him THE LEAST INTERESTING ROLE IN THE ENTIRE GAME. what bullshit.
restarted GTA4 and just taking my time with it, chilling with Roman and just lounging around like a DIGITAL LIFE SIMULATOR because y'know, can't get a real life. But nah, it's good. Even though I've played through it countless times before, it's a solid game, and really cool. Kinda unbelievable how much of a step up from SA it was. Still one of the most believable in-game worlds around. Plus the choice of radio stations (reggae, jazz, fusion, new age, hip hop) is A++++I like to think of it as a step down in a way. In terms of repetitiveness And less RPG elements.
Anyone talking about innate spatial qualities and a truly immersible experience versus innovative mechanic-ology and inventing your own experience based on player interaction with emergent systems. I am addressing this to you:sorry to reply in two parts all jarring like but i just finished the game now & i'm gonna thoughtdump. in terms of theorystuff i think my previous post still holds. but space in tiny & big is kind of interesting.
I have been playing Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers. I saw a video of it linked to the side right after watching some gameplay footage of Proteus. Now I do not disagree with proteus as a concept (as long as nobody expects you to pay for playing it), I am just saying that I bought Tiny and Big just based on what I saw from someone playing the demo level on a youtube video.
I have been playing it, and for MY money, it has been basically the most ideal balance between the two qualities being discussed in the last few posts I have ever seen. It can be true how easy it is for game developers to be mired in one or the other, but find one good application of both at once, and you quickly realize they are basically just like two sides of the same coin. It is the ideal, that type of balance. Hard to pull off with a heavy weight of creativity applied on both sides of the scale. Difficult, but not impossible.
It is odd with this particular game because the few times I found myself most stuck were in the early levels, where I was not expecting the path to be cleanly laid out for me by common platforming game tropes, and thought I needed to apply especially cunning problem solving skills to advance and cheat my way to the top of whatever obstacle I was currently facing.
because there are only two people in the world, there is also no possibility for a sense of place to be produced. the gods and the mole-things are fairly arbitrary and devoid of character, if aesthetically pleasing. all of the possibilities afforded by implying a social space and working to establish a sense of place are left unexplored. this isn't a flaw in the game per se, but it is (in my view) a flaw in the idea that it's an ideal/representative mediation between mechanical design and experience authorship. total godhood in the domain of chopping sufficiently close objects along a straight line works against this, also. hard to see things as having meaningful internal structure when you spend all day annihilating them.
GTA is not Dungeons And Dragons. Well rounded story and characters far outway gimmicks such as making fat people with afros. I enjoyed all that stuff in SA, but honestly, when you leave Los Santos, the story just goes all over the place as it tries to become Bad Boys. Plus there isn't really much to do in SA, it's all superficial detail and repetative GO AND FETCH stuff. I mean, it's a good game and still miles above the Saints Row stuff, but doesn't feel alive or really have that much depth in what it does. Though to be honest, that could mostly be due to the limitations of the consoles at the time.restarted GTA4 and just taking my time with it, chilling with Roman and just lounging around like a DIGITAL LIFE SIMULATOR because y'know, can't get a real life. But nah, it's good. Even though I've played through it countless times before, it's a solid game, and really cool. Kinda unbelievable how much of a step up from SA it was. Still one of the most believable in-game worlds around. Plus the choice of radio stations (reggae, jazz, fusion, new age, hip hop) is A++++I like to think of it as a step down in a way. In terms of repetitiveness And less RPG elements.
I'm playing SoulCalibur IV. I never played SoulCalibur before so I got my ass handed quite a few times, lol. I did manage to beat Story mode on hard. Tower of Lost Souls is a whole other beast though. For now I'm not really getting past floor 20. But, it's a fun game. And I love the Star Wars characters, especially Yoda.I hope you press X for Jason or you can press X for me it's all the same.
For next month I plan to play Heavy Rain (since I missed out on that, and having played the demo I must say it's damn good). And also Naruto Shippuden Ninja Storm 3 since it's coming out next month and probably the best Naruto game yet.
I'm playing SoulCalibur IV. I never played SoulCalibur before so I got my ass handed quite a few times, lol. I did manage to beat Story mode on hard. Tower of Lost Souls is a whole other beast though. For now I'm not really getting past floor 20. But, it's a fun game. And I love the Star Wars characters, especially Yoda.I hope you press X for Jason or you can press X for me it's all the same.
For next month I plan to play Heavy Rain (since I missed out on that, and having played the demo I must say it's damn good). And also Naruto Shippuden Ninja Storm 3 since it's coming out next month and probably the best Naruto game yet.
When you play Heavy Rain you will understand also my real name is Jason so it's was a inside joke.I'm playing SoulCalibur IV. I never played SoulCalibur before so I got my ass handed quite a few times, lol. I did manage to beat Story mode on hard. Tower of Lost Souls is a whole other beast though. For now I'm not really getting past floor 20. But, it's a fun game. And I love the Star Wars characters, especially Yoda.I hope you press X for Jason or you can press X for me it's all the same.
For next month I plan to play Heavy Rain (since I missed out on that, and having played the demo I must say it's damn good). And also Naruto Shippuden Ninja Storm 3 since it's coming out next month and probably the best Naruto game yet.
What?
Well tbh I never thought too deeply about the concept of experience authorship, and assumed most of the games that tipped on that side of the scale were games that oftentimes involved a character in his singular in a world that is basically nothing more than an empty canvas for crafting an experience with. I guess I always thought of authorship in terms of pure introspection rather than on the scale of a person's experience in relation to the entire world/setting around which that experience takes place (or even the world outside the one in which that experience takes place).
The one thing I felt remiss about while playing the game was involving that the only real option presented to me throughout the game was that of destruction. True that destruction was creatively placed, and it was a refreshing change to see puzzles purely in the perspective of where thinking only about how the spaces without stuff in it would solve my problem, rather than simply another type of puzzle that involves yet another variation on filling space with something (I would like to try exploring that very idea with the mechanics of Tetris, but like you mention earlier with the whole binary dynamic, it is very difficult for such a game to not turn out to be the exact same thing that Tetris already is).
But the idea of stacking blocks on top of each other with the rope, no matter how creatively cut they might be, is too subject to the fickle mistress of accurate physics to ever accomplish anything that would even remotely qualify as "constructive". The whole time I was chasing down those godly undaroos I was thinking, "well if I commanded THAT ability, I could at least do some REAL playing with my freshly cut blocks, stacking them into arbitrary yet roughly balanced tower shapes like a child might" Maybe if he donned the pants himself and possibly upgraded his toolset with a glue-gun, it could open up the opportunity for a sequel where your character struggles with finding a constructive and useful place in a world where he could literally tear everything down and build it back up in any manner he so wished.
In short, maybe scribblenauts is a better example of that kind of balance (although one that might not be as good at what it is meant to do as people like to claim), but I am really in no position to philosophize on the matter. There are so many ways to explore so many aspects of the medium and it's potential, there really is not going to be a singular catch-all example of a game that monopolizes on every aspect of gaming that can be enjoyed. If there ever were, it could likely be the very last video game that ever needed to be made.
As for what I think of it thus far more specifically, I wonder if they have completely abandoned duel wielding. its looks to be so. Even though I disliked it in the very game that introduced (halo 2) it I felt that it really broadened the strategy of Halo 3 so I bet the game is weaker for it. Not that it isn't fun. It certainly is.
I don't particularly feel that there is an opposition between those two qualities. Particularly, if you consider "mechanics" to their finest grained, they are a complex of human biocultural stuffs and computer software (itself material culture & technology). This is the same stuff that produces spatiality in games. As approaches, though, they might be distinct. A mechanical approach tends to be focused on more board-gamey macro design, whereas an approach focused on experience might focus on the aesthetic qualities of particular components (software and otherwise) of the game. There is also a literary approach, which treats games as a narrative text. I suspect that range of such approaches exist. In the sense that you may invest your time into one approach or the other & must manage conceptual conflicts between serving the needs of each, I guess that you could consider there being an opposition between them. But reconciliations and combined approaches are certainly possible, so by working at it, the seemingly opposed may meld into a third thing. For me, games are programs produced by doing work & cooperating. As software is such an astoundingly general thing, it naturally welcomes many different approaches.
I think that we think roughly along the same lines, but my version is that "the player experience & culture can't exist without game software capable of producing it". The reason I'd phrase it that way is that I think immersive experience for an individual player is only one of many possible goals. The reason I say game software is that "mechanics" seem to have come to refer to one specific school of thought (drawing from board games and conventional wargames and rpgs) used to build the game software (including the text, pictures and other data embedded in it), whereas all vidja games involve a program and a computer and some i/o devices. Game components is also a suitable (and more general) word.I don't particularly feel that there is an opposition between those two qualities. Particularly, if you consider "mechanics" to their finest grained, they are a complex of human biocultural stuffs and computer software (itself material culture & technology). This is the same stuff that produces spatiality in games. As approaches, though, they might be distinct. A mechanical approach tends to be focused on more board-gamey macro design, whereas an approach focused on experience might focus on the aesthetic qualities of particular components (software and otherwise) of the game. There is also a literary approach, which treats games as a narrative text. I suspect that range of such approaches exist. In the sense that you may invest your time into one approach or the other & must manage conceptual conflicts between serving the needs of each, I guess that you could consider there being an opposition between them. But reconciliations and combined approaches are certainly possible, so by working at it, the seemingly opposed may meld into a third thing. For me, games are programs produced by doing work & cooperating. As software is such an astoundingly general thing, it naturally welcomes many different approaches.
Yes exactly, I don't think there's any opposition between immersive gaming and mechanics, where we might disagree (I don't know) is that I think immersive stuff simply won't exist until they have corresponding gameplay mechanics.
When I see a wall I can jump off of in Super Mario 64 I think that imbues it with a kind of potentiality, and that neither detracts nor sits separate from its aesthetic or immerisve value. In fact I think this is laying the ground work for certain kinds of emotions to occur. Moving a floating camera through a hallway in Mario 64 is I think very different than walking along with Mario down that same hallway. That hallway is made manifest beyond being a 3D shape because of Mario's abilities relative to it. I think this is the same reason why that Grandpa game struck a chord, pieces of the gameworld are willed into existence because of the players abilities relative to those parts of the landscape.
huge traumatic event forced upon her to explain why she's an adventurer in her later life
finished final fantasy v. played through most of it a long time ago but lost steam and never finished it. i have no idea why, well over a decade later, i decide to start a new game and finish it, but sometimes life is like that.you're lying!!!
for some reason it was my intention to write something about this game, but probably everyone in the universe has an opinion about every possible angle of the series, so it feels kinda dumb even bothering at this point. it is a video game and i played it. do you really care what i think about final fantasy v?
I did a controversial thing and did a video review of the new Tomb Raider. I put it on a new youtube account cos these (assuming i do more) aren't meant to be funny and exist on a lower level of stuff which is just me talking about crap. The account is called talkingabouter. Here is the video:this was a really good review and it seemed to clear up my main apprehension to the game, which was the E3 showing that had all these deeply unsettling sexualized violence vibes. After that showing I pretty much stopped paying attention to this game until just the past few days where I heard it being compared to Metroid Prime in terms of level design and that got me interested again, and I'm glad that the E3 fiasco was just a bad representation and not really indicative of the tone of the game and Lara's portrayal. I mean I'm not expecting her to be a Female Icon but at least it doesn't feel like it's getting off to her getting brutally beat up anymore.
if it weren't for the cool gameplay/class systems it'd be pretty bad.yeah, more or less
also VILLAIN is that a ....toomba/i avatar i see
YES!!! for Hundley review, bonzi throws himself in front of Dada, praises his new god for new hundley updatenot being able to use planescape because of property rights, thinking of how much content the owners of those d&d campaign settings like forgotten realms and planescape have blocked just so a handful of people can have their nerd stuff their way
also idk if you are interested Hundley (i still remember your thoughts on Torment...) but there's a new Planescape game coming up with lotsa "cooks" in sight in Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/) mabby there's Kotor2 writers etc in it?? maybe it's not complete bullshit this time?? Ah, To Be a FORTUNE TELLER, Now I....
dungeon crawl stone soup (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/)
Hope you like rogue-likes. because you will probably end up wasting hours on this one.
what's this crawl game is sounds great
dungeon crawl stone soup (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/)
Hope you like rogue-likes. because you will probably end up wasting hours on this one.
tomb raiderI played & beat it. it's a solid game, clearly designed to be playable and attractive to as many people as possible. it's not super gross like I thought.
I was playing some Ni No Kuni last night. It's sheer visual splendour is almost enough to keep me ploughing through it, but the very repetitive fetch-quests are not fun because the quality of the writing doesn't justify the time spent doing them. The combat is unusual, it plays a little like Resonance of Fate IIRC, and it's actually quite challenging, which I like, trying to beat it without grinding when it obviously wants me to grind. I think I'll carry on playing it because of this, trying to stay lower level...
1. Game design doesn't exist except as planning for game construction. It's not really a thing in itself.
2. The production of software and the production in and of the surrounding culture are inseparable.
3. The 'potential' is roughly the same as a partial mental map of a space produced by the software.
4. The game space is a dialectic between the state-space of the game software and the player-community's understanding of it. Actually it's probably a bigger dialectic mess than that but I'll have a better idea when I've finished reading Lefebvre's book (The Production of Space) and maybe done some more math. That whole research trail is a big unresolved timesink.
5. That means that's it's not so simple as I initially thought it was (flow of potential / state-space around the player-character). It's not wholly determined by the player's abilities because the player's expectations, their limited information about the data and rules of the game, and the situation of the whole thing in a wider cultural web.
Bioshock Infinite right now the story isn't so bad but can be funny at times.The first third of Infinite was amazing. Then a bunch of minor annoyances started cropping up, culminating with the biggest FUCK YOU ending ever. It started out so promising.
Playing Mass Effect 2 as well, not a fan, feels really 'light' and a bit silly to be honest. Maybe I shouldn't be playing it so many years later!When you mean 'light' are you referring to gameplay? Because yeah I sort of agree. I mean it was OK but I would have preferred a bit more depth. The best thing about ME2 was the characters in my opinion.
ack, i just wrote a massive diatribe about various games i'm playing, then i realised i know nothing about game design, and should probably delete it, which i did.
just to put something useful in the thread: i have quite enjoyed: RE:Make, Eternal Darkness (still not sure, but it's interesting), that new Mario on 3DS, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate lately.
ack, i just wrote a massive diatribe about various games i'm playing, then i realised i know nothing about game design, and should probably delete it, which i did.W-what?? w-w-w... WHAT?? 8^O 8=====^O 8^O ... >:^8 ?! what the fuck man!! your posts are good!! what the heck!! please don't delete them!!! please!!! :^_( _
Yeah actually you are among the few here that definitely knows their shit. The only other 3 that I can think of for this place is Chef who doesn't post anymore, thecatamites who hasn't posted in a while, and Jmickle who, while being excellent at making games, is probably more small time than you are.
I definitely don't know my shit. lol.
i'm sure all the testers really liked getting their names pushed to a corner of the screen so the audience would make absolutely sure not to forget that bioshock infinite was a ken levine game(as evidenced by the completely necessary video of him in the ending credits).As pretentious as Infinite is, part of me supports face authorship. Developers have a hard time making them look more relevant than publishers. There seems to be a need to produce more Miyamotos and Kojimas as it is a crowded industry these days. Although games are very collaborative process I guess it's easier for people to process that one guy is the reason a game exists. Nowadays you just see head developers be there because they happened to be promoted to such a position. Hideo Kojima had such a hard time even letting other people take control the of the MGS series. Which might have to do with japanese work force culture? I have no clue. But it seems complicated.
As pretentious as Infinite is, part of me supports face authorship. Developers have a hard time making them look more relevant than publishers. There seems to be a need to produce more Miyamotos and Kojimas as it is a crowded industry these days. Although games are very collaborative process I guess it's easier for people to process that one guy is the reason a game exists. Nowadays you just see head developers be there because they happened to be promoted to such a position. Hideo Kojima had such a hard time even letting other people take control the of the MGS series. Which might have to do with japanese work force culture? I have no clue. But it seems complicated.i buy into auteur theory a whole lot more than i probably should, so i don't disagree with this at all. i think having people who can fill those shoes is good for these sorts of mediums, at least externally, even if there is something somewhat faulty about giving certain loud people a little too much credit. it's remarkably superficial to suggest, but i feel, for example, that kurosawa's movies have a bit more cumulative value when viewed as part of the kurosawa filmography rather than purely on their own individual merits, which are still remarkable. it's good that someone like kurosawa exists, that there is some bar that other people can go out and fail miserably to reach, some known benchmark for how to do it all extremely well. there's something slightly fascist about feeling this way i think, but i feel as though the game industry desperately needs more people like this, some rough equivalent to the sorts of people the other mediums had, the indisputable genius types, the standard that all should really be aiming for. a couple people are like that in games, but it feels like with everybody you need to take bad with good, and generally you will have difficulty having a great number of people agree on who does it all particularly well. i wouldn't expect the names i'd put loosely into this category would be warmly welcomed by most.
unfeeling clusterfucks of unprocessed controversy!
Today was the first time in 2 weeks that I've been able to play KOTOR2. I've put in around 31 hours now. Moving very slowly, but enjoying it. Can't wait to listen to some HK-47 again.He going to call you a meat bag anyway you slice it.
To bad he's probably going to hate my character's guts since I'm 100% goody-two-shoes.
i bought SaGa Frontier for the ps1 off ebay like a month ago. im hoping to play through it at some point during the summer. it looks good.i would say your odds of loving it or hating it is about 50% in either direction. it's childish and unintelligible, so you kinda need to go into it not really expecting something specific, or anything really resembling a cohesive experience. it doesn't really do anything particularly well, and it's really disappointing how badly they end up tying together all the scenarios in the game(and insanely disappointing if you've ever played live a live).
i bought SaGa Frontier for the ps1 off ebay like a month ago. im hoping to play through it at some point during the summer. it looks good.i would say your odds of loving it or hating it is about 50% in either direction. it's childish and unintelligible, so you kinda need to go into it not really expecting something specific, or anything really resembling a cohesive experience. it doesn't really do anything particularly well, and it's really disappointing how badly they end up tying together all the scenarios in the game(and insanely disappointing if you've ever played live a live).
despite this, i really like saga frontier. the whole experience is kinda dumb and meandering, but there's a certain aesthetic that comes from it all that i'm not really able to articulate too coherently. all the saga games are kinda like that, where it's never too clear how to get a handle of how the game works, or what is really going on in the story or what you should be doing. deliberately or not, there's something about those games that has the feel of renting an old, obscure, unintelligble nintendo game without the instruction booklet, and finding the novelty in trying to piece together the logic of something that doesn't make a lot of sense to you. like trying to communicate with someone who doesn't really speak your language over a near-destroyed ham radio that you don't really know how to operate. stuff like that i guess. the novelty of confusion. though other saga games are better examples of this odd aesthetic, it's still more or less present in this game as well.
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W-what?? w-w-w... WHAT?? 8^O 8=====^O 8^O ... >:^8 ?! what the fuck man!! your posts are good!! what the heck!! please don't delete them!!! please!!! :^_( _
EDIT don't hurt yourself!!! also i reaaaaaaaally doubt you dont know ANYTHING about games design... >;^2 ?? they were probably good posts even if you didnt think so...! >;^4 youre hella suspicious...! >;^d dont take a shit on yourself!!! don't decice your worth beforehand... >:^8 Believe In Yourself! :^>
u. for a fool.:throw:
Game I've played most recently:what??? i'm not familiar with this! do you have a link for this??
The Pokey the Penguin RPG.
Weirdly, it's actually quite a decent game. The system is pretty simple, but easy to work with (like limit breaks to pull of techniques and mp for everything else), and the narrative has me slightly interested. Admittedly, it makes a lot more sense than the webcom itself.
I bought Paolo (my other half) the pokey books for Christmas last year, and it was him who got me to play it. We've chuckled a large number of times thus far, and he's actively suggesting me playing more of it while he watches, so I guess that's a BIG THUMBS UP!!!
Game I've played most recently:what??? i'm not familiar with this! do you have a link for this??
The Pokey the Penguin RPG.
Weirdly, it's actually quite a decent game. The system is pretty simple, but easy to work with (like limit breaks to pull of techniques and mp for everything else), and the narrative has me slightly interested. Admittedly, it makes a lot more sense than the webcom itself.
I bought Paolo (my other half) the pokey books for Christmas last year, and it was him who got me to play it. We've chuckled a large number of times thus far, and he's actively suggesting me playing more of it while he watches, so I guess that's a BIG THUMBS UP!!!THE INTERNET IS CALLING YOU A LIAR!!!
Dude, it's directly on the POKEY WEBSITE!this is a humiliating turn of events!!!! like not thinking of looking inside the chicken for the missing eggs.
HOLD ON LET ME FIND IT FOR YOU:
http://yellow5.com/pokey/hall/ (http://yellow5.com/pokey/hall/)
This is a link to HALL OF WHIMSY at POKEYSITE.
Secondly you must click POKEY QUEST; It is above link: OBTAIN BOOK.
Then: Game.
NOTE: You get to name your KICKING TEAM. WATCH OUT FOR A CUNNING SURPRISE T~HOUGH!
Mercenary Kings is the probably the best pulled off Generic Game i've played. There's a lot I hate about it (grinding, loot, etc.) but it's all towards a common goal of base dumb fun. I'm looking forward to trying it out multiplayer, and I have a feeling there's local multiplayer too so it gives me yet another reason to pick up a new x360 pad. Paul Roberston's animations are super juicy as usual, giving a really metal slug vibe, and again it's no masterpiece (I could talk forever about why his work is bad) but serves the theme of the game perfectly.
It basically screams "Don't think about this game critically!!"
Killer is Dead
My LP of the game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLZwhqHOpY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLZwhqHOpY)
It's ok so far but it dose have a bit of a perverted dating game involving see though glasses.
There are only a handful of those games I've ever really enjoyed. Earthbound,
I don't know anything about suda51 or his games. I never understood the appeal at face value, which I gathered is kinda the point.
I watched your first Remember Me video, DDay. I knew the title because I was in a store and the lady's butt on the cover caught my eye. at the time I had figured she was an NPC of interest to the stubbled white male main character!! the game looks ok despite the super boring post-apocalyptic setting.
saints row 4yeah some of it is actually funny, which is surprising bc it's a video game. SR3 is better tho. I heard SR1 and 2 were more like GTA clones, but I haven't played them.
I've never played a saints row game because I assumed it was just a gta ripoff which it kind of is but I'm really liking this one. The dialogue is fucking hilarious. Or some parts are. Like right now I'm riding around with this pierce guy and they're doing some kareoke shit with the radio and its pretty funny. Zinyak fucked with biz markie, nobody fucks with biz markie
Heard it was basically an open world super hero game now like Prototype, Infamous, Crackdown, Just Cause 2 etc.I dunno, I haven't played any of those games, but when I think of open world I think of games like Fallout. there are activities and shops around Steelport, but besides that all the dialogue and everything comes from your homies or missions.
How much saving in an old game with no saves constitutes save scumming? Any? One per stage?
Yeah Chie wanting to be a cop breaks my heart idk what cops are like in Japan but I don't trust it...
Played a bit of GTA V.The GTA series has always been a fairly self-aware parody of crime culture, and American culture in general, but I do think the latest game stands out particularly in how far it's pushing that angle. Like you mentioned, the 3 main characters are basically walking trope criminals, the bitter white retired bank robber going through a mid-life crisis, the baller from the hood boosting cars and dreaming big, and the psychopath with a troubled childhood who's just sooooo craaaazzyyyy. Unfortunately I don't think the game is particularly sharp or clever in it's commentary, it just comes off as kind of dumb and parroting instead of actually interesting. Everything in the game is just a parody or reference to something with no bite behind it - it's basically just going "haha look how shallow and hypocritical this aspect of American culture is" which by itself is pretty boring.
I have not ever played a GTA before aside from messing around with them at a friends house. But sandbox games always comes off as "big world, less concentrated" when you have a straightforward linear action game the levels are designed to suit the mechanics and thus you're more likely to do things with expectations and where movement is more refined. But I decided to give the best of sandbox games a shot, idk to try something new.
I ended up doing a lot of the story missions. And a lot of the GTA humor is kind of revealing itself intent wise. A lot of the events in the game come off as blatant parody of crime culture and media. There's even an advertisement of a game called Righteous Slaughter 7 where a tagline says "the same damn game as the last one" or something.. The characters so far are hard to care about they each have their own personalities but come off as exaggerated caricatures of crime people. What makes GTAV a step above the other crime games is that it's aware that crime is bad and really stupid, but for the sake of the gameplay there's a point where a retired bank robber like Michael is like "ahhh fuck it LETS HAVE SOME FUN" There's really no way to make a relate-able character who sees death as a horrible thing with these types of games. But characters will have conversations about life choices and what they want to do with themselves. It's a strange area of writing.
I guess I'm surprised GTA V does have a self awareness to it, that it's probably inspiring or forwarding crime in some pop culture way like bad rap music. I don't think media really KILLS PEOPLE but it does give a weird empowering want or identity. But at the same time it makes efforts to make itself immature and rather trash culture. Kinda like Robocop's depiction of TV "I'll buy that for a dollar" It's just weird. As for the game itself I'm kind of enjoying it, the story missions have a lot of variety to them and they never feel too "fetchy" most of the time the character is doing a mission on his own accord. But yeah I will follow up or something.
edit: I forgot I had something to say about... spec ops the line
It felt really forced to me. Like the whole you're the real monster kind of message and how dumb shooter games are just dumb shooter games. I mean I thought some aspects were clever but I think MGS2 did it way better. The whole thing about MGS2 is that it actually had an impact marketing wise. Everyone was expecting a Snake saves america in a bigger and better fashion instead they were treated to a very feminine in nature main character that was "emo" or "whiney". Which caused a lot of reactions and a lot of people took the VR thing as confusing and dumb. When really Raiden was just the player all along taking orders from a video game telling them what to do. It's very post modern in the way that the game put Snake on the cover and in the trailers only to do a bait and switch all in 2001.
Now I feel like I'm just talking about MGS2, but I guess spec ops the line is really only played by people who liked the message, rather than reacting to it. It's supposed to attack people who play military shooters and yet wasn't really marketed or sold to them. I guess in terms of art and post modernism there's a really important point to be made when MGS2 stands out as "that game" Idk I guess it'd be interesting if a mainline Call of Duty game did the same thing as spec ops the line. Is what I'm saying.
lol stateside shootings happen because of irrational people seeking an irrational solution to their problems, a fucked up subculure, or mental distress, not shit like gta.
Yes gta is a parody of shitty pop culture, crime drama and even itself.
strange game. it claims (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/19/far-cry-3s-jeffrey-yohalem-on-racism-torture-and-satire/) to have a lot going on under the hood stylistically/thematically, but you play it for a while and it's really just another pretty brainless, tiresome sandbox game without a lot of particularly rewarding stuff to do or things happening. it's kinda sad. the game desperately wants to be a slightly objective criticism of the way games work and the way we percieve this sort of thing, but what ultimately happens is that the game doesn't really go into areas fundamentally different from your standard call of duty game, meaning that you aren't going to really get anything from this deliberately awful depiction of human cruelty than one that does so out of its own obliviousness. the whole game is about showing rather identical levels of murder and destruction that you see in every other game, but not attempting to cover up those problems with stuff like ITS OK YOU'RE A MARINE or HEY THEY WERE ZOMBIES IT'S COOL, you see this stuff for what it is and how much it breeds unhealthy ways of thinking. that's in the ballpark of a neat idea i guess, but i think we're inadvertently there already, a lot of games are so unconvincing in their narratives that it's pretty easy to get sidetracked and see this objectively. i don't think we needed this much help. that this is pretty much all the game has going for it made it rather underwhelming.
The GTA series has always been a fairly self-aware parody of crime culture, and American culture in general, but I do think the latest game stands out particularly in how far it's pushing that angle. Like you mentioned, the 3 main characters are basically walking trope criminals, the bitter white retired bank robber going through a mid-life crisis, the baller from the hood boosting cars and dreaming big, and the psychopath with a troubled childhood who's just sooooo craaaazzyyyy. Unfortunately I don't think the game is particularly sharp or clever in it's commentary, it just comes off as kind of dumb and parroting instead of actually interesting. Everything in the game is just a parody or reference to something with no bite behind it - it's basically just going "haha look how shallow and hypocritical this aspect of American culture is" which by itself is pretty boring.
I assume the difference between spec ops and Farcry is a qualitative change in content and not just metaphorical character which is supposed to exorcise the content of its banality.yeah, i generally thought so. i think beyond everything else, the main difference is the way the games acknowledge your behavior and the way the narrative gives you feedback about what you've done. in far cry 3 there isn't really a ton of useful or informative feedback outside of one of your friends occasionally saying YOU'VE CHANGED or the main character saying something slightly gross contextually. i did just play the first half, so i may not be giving the game sufficient credit in this department, but when i gave up on the game there wasn't any genuine conflict beyond that which you really see in something like call of duty: the main character going on some gross, unproductive killing spree, with no nagative consequence. certainly i found it gross, but no more gross than any of those other games, which is why i didn't find the experience singular enough to keep playing it. that the game is a sandbox game with a lot of mundane stuff to do doesn't really help matters, as there's no value to doing any of that, short of leveling up and making your murders a bit easier. i got the feeling that the game's writer had some larger metaphoric intent with that, but it was completely lost on me as an unnecessary component of an already uneventful narrative. i guess ultimately it was there just as another reward system in a game that shouldn't have had more reward systems, but i didn't find more repulsive things happening to have much of a useful cumulative effect beyond just making the game more unpleasant to play over time. that's kinda the point, sure, but it's the same reason why i don't like playing call of duty. i have a difficult time saying we need more of that sort of thing, nearly verbatim no less.
a game that parodies/criticizes violent videogames and culture WHILE being the unapologetic, gloriously polished holy temple and theme park of violence in of itself?? Hah hah, man i don't... i don't think i can handle this level of critical thought any longer *pisses to leg, interesting fractals piss patterns forms into the military pants*
The GTA series has always been a fairly self-aware parody of crime culture, and American culture in general, but I do think the latest game stands out particularly in how far it's pushing that angle. Like you mentioned, the 3 main characters are basically walking trope criminals, the bitter white retired bank robber going through a mid-life crisis, the baller from the hood boosting cars and dreaming big, and the psychopath with a troubled childhood who's just sooooo craaaazzyyyy. Unfortunately I don't think the game is particularly sharp or clever in it's commentary, it just comes off as kind of dumb and parroting instead of actually interesting. Everything in the game is just a parody or reference to something with no bite behind it - it's basically just going "haha look how shallow and hypocritical this aspect of American culture is" which by itself is pretty boring
so GTA is family guy basically can I just assume this and go on with my life
I've not played Spec Ops: The Line or GTAV so I'm commenting purely on second-hand information about both, but here's some thoughts that I guess those who have played them can say more on. What I've heard about Spec Ops from some friends who played it is that even though it does the "these things you did were bad", the message is kind of lost in a game where you have no choice but to do them. Like, it's weird to feel guilty about actions you had no control over? "You shouldn't have done that thing..." How, by not playing at all? It seems weird to criticize actions that the player doesn't actually have a say in.i don't see how the lack of a happy ending choice diminsihes what this shows about life and military conflict. there are definitely choices in spec ops: the line, but invariably all of them are just lesser of two evils choices, it really comes down to a lack of a real happy ending choice. the whole story is a literal nightmare situation where there's just nothing you can do to make this terrible circumstance right, which is a real-life concept that people should probably become a little more intimately acquainted with. the whole "we were just following orders" phenomenon is one of the central themes of the game, so it'd be a legitimate cop-out to provide a way to resolve these conflicts with the basic dignity of the main characters intact. that's kinda the best way to really convey that effectively.
Ah see this makes sense. I definitely wasn't advocating for a happy choice, but I was under the impression that there weren't a lot of actual choices in the game. If the game forces you to do something terrible then berates you for it that would be pretty dang stupid and not make any sort of point. I can't really argue anything else since I haven't played it myself, but yeah from the talk I had seen about it it sounded like there wasn't much choice at all in those matters and then the game is like LOOK AT THIS BAD THING YOU DID, but maybe that's not the case then.I've not played Spec Ops: The Line or GTAV so I'm commenting purely on second-hand information about both, but here's some thoughts that I guess those who have played them can say more on. What I've heard about Spec Ops from some friends who played it is that even though it does the "these things you did were bad", the message is kind of lost in a game where you have no choice but to do them. Like, it's weird to feel guilty about actions you had no control over? "You shouldn't have done that thing..." How, by not playing at all? It seems weird to criticize actions that the player doesn't actually have a say in.i don't see how the lack of a happy ending choice diminsihes what this shows about life and military conflict. there are definitely choices in spec ops: the line, but invariably all of them are just lesser of two evils choices, it really comes down to a lack of a real happy ending choice. the whole story is a literal nightmare situation where there's just nothing you can do to make this terrible circumstance right, which is a real-life concept that people should probably become a little more intimately acquainted with. the whole "we were just following orders" phenomenon is one of the central themes of the game, so it'd be a legitimate cop-out to provide a way to resolve these conflicts with the basic dignity of the main characters intact. that's kinda the best way to really convey that effectively.
just talking about spec ops though, not gta. i don't think rockstar has their heads screwed on right.
If the game forces you to do something terrible then berates you for it that would be pretty dang stupid and not make any sort of point.well no, it does more or less do that throughout the entire game, i just don't think that automatically negates the point. *spoilers* there is a part where the game forces you to indiscriminately fire white phosphorus at some perceived foe, and the next scene is a section where you go out there to see what you've done and you see everybody melting, including 75 or so civilians that, unbeknownst to you, happened to be there. it's a really horrifying scene, probably one of the most upsetting things i've seen in a videogame, but it depicts the sheer brutality of violence as clearly as i've ever seen the medium do it. you can take a look at the scene here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7TaLjdXMc), though it has a lot more weight contextually, with the main characters spending the whole game talking up their great intentions and there otherwise not being very much negative feedback for the senseless murder you're committing.
I think the intended message is ultimately "For enjoying/playing war simulating shooters, you are a terrible person. Repent." or at least "Companies that produce these games need to be stopped and you are terrible for encouraging them."i don't really think this is what spec ops: the line is about. it can certainly have the function of people rethinking what they're getting out of these terrible war shooters, how truthful those experiences are, but i have a difficult time accepting that it's just outright criticism of people who enjoy shooters, with little going on beyond that. although i kinda live in a fantasy world where stories have more valuable functions than insular critiques of their own lousy mediums, so i was kinda clinging to "this is what war is actually like" as what the game was really about. that definitely still makes the game generally a reaction to other games(which is somewhat lame), but i was hoping it was ultimately less of a you-are-awful-for-playing-shooters thing, more of a reasonably earnest attempt to destroy the mythos of the contemporary war hero. i think there is a difference, but that might just be me.
But what I get from the story at face value itself is "This guy intended to do good, but made the situation worse exponentially by getting involved, thus he is a terrible person. Never get involved."
Both are view points I oppose. I don't think buying/playing/enjoying a violence focused video game makes you a bad person, and I don't agree with condemning a man for making things worse if he authentically wanted to make things better. Though I admire the developers for making a point in a video game at all.
As for forcing the player to commit atrocities in the first place to continue through the game I think that it actually undercuts the point if they are really trying to say the PLAYER rather than say the character is the bad guy.
yeah which is why I miss linear games so much. They could really apply more principal and storyline through making some linear ones but that would take more effort into the actual storytelling which very few of anything rarely has.yes yes yes yes yes
I've said this before. Don't know if it was on IRC or on the forums.yeah which is why I miss linear games so much. They could really apply more principal and storyline through making some linear ones but that would take more effort into the actual storytelling which very few of anything rarely has.yes yes yes yes yes
glad to have someone else besides me saying this for a change
i've been playing gtav. so far i think it's pretty shite.Stay with it man. There is a lull at the start but it gets a lot better. I haven't finished it yet but there's a lot of fun to be had.
I'm just waiting for Dark Souls 2 to come out, seriously I want it so bad hhnnngghghg
That's a good idea, I have yet to play Demon's Souls. It's PS3 only right?I'm just waiting for Dark Souls 2 to come out, seriously I want it so bad hhnnngghghg
yeah I'm thinking I really should just beat demon's souls before that comes out.
I got Dark Souls in steam yesterday when they had their sale and only had time to play it a little
I don't have no microsoft account or nothing so I had to make one and jump through a lot of hoops for to be able to save games, which annoyed me
The controls do not seem to map very well to a keyboard and mouse at all. the mappings are unintuitive and clunky, and using the mouse to control camera angle is just... ugh. all this means I'll probably have to buy a usb game pad or some bullshit like that in order to be able to play this properly, because as-is it is practically unplayable.
I enjoy both methods for games. Open is typically more dumb fun, linear is an experience and usually more memorable.
Anyway, if the game was just trying to display that war is a terrible thing, it certainly did its job. But arguably so did BLOPS2 story wise if not gameplay-wise.
Bear Stearns Bravo is pretty good, and playable here (https://www.bearstearnsbravo.com). it faithfully recreates those old live action video adventures in a pretty entertaining and occasionally funny way. the game parodies the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis in a dystopian alternate reality where everything is about market shares and mortgages and celebrity bankers with stock tickers attached to their heads. each of the (currently) two videos has a surprisingly large world locked away inside them, and it's pretty fun to dig around and find out what new things you can see just by choosing different options. for a video game, I really dig the characters and the experience of interacting with different people. I hope they expand it even further.Come back horse_ebooks! :fogetcry:
Found a site that emulates Apple II computers so I've been playing Ali Baba for the first time in about twenty years. http://www.virtualapple.org/alibabadisk.html (http://www.virtualapple.org/alibabadisk.html)
I linked a few pics of text in the dump topic; the game reminds me of these forums for some reason. Mostly the ducats and Dwarves.
Bear Stearns Bravo is pretty good, and playable here (https://www.bearstearnsbravo.com). it faithfully recreates those old live action video adventures in a pretty entertaining and occasionally funny way. the game parodies the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis in a dystopian alternate reality where everything is about market shares and mortgages and celebrity bankers with stock tickers attached to their heads. each of the (currently) two videos has a surprisingly large world locked away inside them, and it's pretty fun to dig around and find out what new things you can see just by choosing different options. for a video game, I really dig the characters and the experience of interacting with different people. I hope they expand it even further.Come back horse_ebooks! :fogetcry:
I have FO: Tactics, I got it in a bundle, I've heard its semi-canon (urgh) and that it came out after FO2 but its story takes place before FO2. I know the stories don't connect much but I feel like I should play all the games in story chronological order not release order because I'm nuts. Otherwise Tactics is a waste and I'm likely to never play it. Regardless of whether you think Tactics is a good game (I'll figure that out on my own) do you think that by playing it first that I'd ruin any aspect of FO2? because it came out later I can see it 'spoiling' things for FO2 even though its set at a time long before canon-wise. Any assistance here is appreciated!You can really get away with skipping Tactics entirely to be perfectly honest. I tried playing it a bunch of times, and it's kinda neat, not an awful game or anything, it's just barely a fallout game and not something I think really anybody truly considers part of the fallout experience. Every time I seriously sat down trying to play it I eventually just gave up entirely, as there's really no story to speak of, short of R. Lee Ermey screaming at you once in a while, and the fallout battle system gets fairly tiresome when that's all you're doing in the game. It's still worth trying one day I guess, it might do more for you than it did for me, but it's absolutely not something you play instead of Fallout 2, for fear of you just losing steam in the series entirely and never getting around to Fallout 2.
I found Tactics to be really great fun so going on what you say I really need to get my shit together.Yeah, probably, although the first two Fallout games aren't really all that combat-oriented if that's what you liked about Tactics. It's there, and it's done reasonably well most of the time, but they're definitely more about story and atmosphere. It's still pretty good stuff I think, something pretty much everybody into games should at least try, but you're coming into those games from a really unusual direction!
I don't think Tactics is a prequel. As I said before, my memory is fuzzy, and I guess it does make sense that the beginning of Tactics story takes place before FO2, but they are so loosely related, its hard to really consider it a prequel, or even a sequel. Its just a game that happens to take place in the same world I guess(and has probably been ignored in the greater continuity of the series).Yeah, this is pretty much how I remember it too, though it's been a really long time since I played it.
The Witcher: I got it free from a GOG promo. Basically I can't get myself to like this game. It kind of seems like they put the worst elements of Fable and Neverwinter Nights together to make a rather bland experience. Also, I'm cool with the idea of being able to have sex in an open world game, but the way they present it (ridiculous cutscenes with hardcore porno sounds and then receiving a trading card for each lady) was pretty gross and made me feel kind of put off. I also just really don't care about Geralt at all.
I've still never played fallout 3. I know some people here said it's not really worth playing in comparison to NV, but I've also seen some nerds elsewhere say F3 is way better than NV. I've read a little about it, seemed a little depressing but not in a good wayI never really understood why these games were that polarizing, personally. I definitely got more out of New Vegas, but Fallout 3 did enough things right that I'd call it worth most people's time. To a degree I feel like it comes down to whether you want more exploration or more narrative. For me, Fallout 3 was more about just going out into the wasteland and getting lost doing stuff, while New Vegas was more about storytelling and these tense relationships between all the people in the world.
I think all of NV's 4 DLCs were great additions to the game, really the only worthwhile DLC I've ever seenI have to ask, since I completely missed this when I went through Honest Hearts: Did you read the Randall Clark diaries (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Randall_Clark_terminal_entries)? If not imho you should read them, even if you're just looking at it on that website. There's some pretty neat storytelling in the Fallout games, but I don't think anything else in those games really comes close to that.
the first one is nearly unplayable in its horribleness and I've owned the second ever since it came out and hadn't played it yet. Still....because of how shitty the first witcher is.Dude, seriously? Why are you shitting all over my hopes and dreams.
I figured it'd be the opposite actually! NV was the first Fallout I played, so I didn't fully understand the narrative the first time through. I mostly just enjoyed wandering around the mojave sorta role playing a character and interacting with the different factions.I've still never played fallout 3. I know some people here said it's not really worth playing in comparison to NV, but I've also seen some nerds elsewhere say F3 is way better than NV. I've read a little about it, seemed a little depressing but not in a good wayI never really understood why these games were that polarizing, personally. I definitely got more out of New Vegas, but Fallout 3 did enough things right that I'd call it worth most people's time. To a degree I feel like it comes down to whether you want more exploration or more narrative. For me, Fallout 3 was more about just going out into the wasteland and getting lost doing stuff, while New Vegas was more about storytelling and these tense relationships between all the people in the world.
If you can handle more Fallout after finishing New Vegas, it's probably worth a shot. It's not really the same, and can get insanely boring just hiking around for no apparent reason, though you can always just stick to the main story and skip all the unnecessary shit. Since you liked New Vegas, I'm guessing you dug the narrative, so you kinda need to expect a whole lot less of that in Fallout 3. Does have its moments, though, and the DLCs are actually pretty worthwhile much in the same way they were in New Vegas.
yeah I encountered those and I thought they were pretty great, but I don't remember if I read all of them or got the right order down. I'll have to check em out againQuoteI have to ask, since I completely missed this when I went through Honest Hearts: Did you read the Randall Clark diaries (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Randall_Clark_terminal_entries)? If not imho you should read them, even if you're just looking at it on that website. There's some pretty neat storytelling in the Fallout games, but I don't think anything else in those games really comes close to that.
I think all of NV's 4 DLCs were great additions to the game, really the only worthwhile DLC I've ever seen
played through most of RE2 last night and made a video about it to kind of get it out of my system. mostly talking about prerendered backgrounds, i miss em
http://youtu.be/Q2PDstTaqrs (http://youtu.be/Q2PDstTaqrs)
Playing through Crono Trigger for the first time in over 10 years. I kinda didn't realize how not-so great this game is. Particularly, in that it has so little focus in the gameplay and plot, that you essentially just wander into half of the plot points, and the battle system is obnoxious enough that it doesn't give you your maximum hp during battle (I had another 200 hp or so I didn't realize I had during one of the boss battles). There is no way that anybody who doesn't have all the time in the world could beat this game without a guideGuss you never play Phantasy Star 2 ... I personally love Phantasy Star 2 but some can call it a grind fest and if you answer the wrong answers on a dialog branch and save over your save without a backup you can kiss your Megid (spell\tech) goodbye the only real effective way to do damage to the last boss granted it dose a low amount damge to all party members.
Usually play my PC more than anything, but lately I'm on the Wii U almost exclusively (which is odd because when I got that console I assumed I'd only be playing it for smash) Been playing a little smash, a lot of splatoon, and have gone a bit crazy over super mario maker.Apparently you need to make more levels like this: https://twitter.com/bskipper27/status/643067644023861248 (https://twitter.com/bskipper27/status/643067644023861248)
That is pretty much the reason I'm bumping this topic. I am pretty much flabbergasted about not hearing anyone else mention it here before myself. I thought at least a couple of folks still here would be crazy over mario maker, and I'm NEVER the guy who mentions something first! Also wondering if I started a topic for posting level codes, if more than one other person would actually be interested in checking that out.
C'mon guys, I'm pretty desperate for star coins at this point. I know I got the level design chops, but none of the folks actually playing this game are sophisticated enough to appreciate my genius!
Undertale is good, though I can't bring myself to complete a genocide run.
Unfortunately both of those changes end up coming entirely at the cost of immersion, which wouldn't be too high a cost to pay if it were literally any other series.The good Zeldas will usually have elements that raise up the game and make it basically more than the sum of its parts, the Fairies in Ocarina Of Time introduce normal fairy fountains, which are like a weird fantasy dimension poking through otherwise mundane locations. At the very least, the fountains make the environment feel as though it's populated with bizarre secrets. The fact that they heal is a pretty small component of their overall character, compared to other games.
Spot on... both EDC and Zizek. I think in general OoT and Majorask did a LOT with light and darkness esthetically. Anybody remembers the existential anxiety the game could induce, eg. the future Kakariko's graveyard race through NEON torch flames in darkness (whyyy???? why NOW, why not earlier or later in the game??), dark hollow ambience instead of merry happy We're Racing - music, all the while trying to process that cool kind gravekeeper is fucking dead and still around to obsessively challenge you to a race??? aaaa. it's like some gloom-and-doom little welcome party, a real "party freak". You're Dead!! Hah Hah, Welcome to the party, says a serious version of Space Funeral.Unfortunately both of those changes end up coming entirely at the cost of immersion, which wouldn't be too high a cost to pay if it were literally any other series.The good Zeldas will usually have elements that raise up the game and make it basically more than the sum of its parts, the Fairies in Ocarina Of Time introduce normal fairy fountains, which are like a weird fantasy dimension poking through otherwise mundane locations. At the very least, the fountains make the environment feel as though it's populated with bizarre secrets. The fact that they heal is a pretty small component of their overall character, compared to other games.
Similarly, the collectable spiders in Ocarina are a weird infestation, with the same dark, mystical air of the rest of the game. They scratch around on the side of a barn while the farmer is sleeping and you're out snooping around on his property. They're exactly the kind of thing you need to see to make darkness in the game feel like the dead of night. The atmosphere this builds is realized seamlessly through gameplay and astonishingly elevates what should be a dumb collectable.
The Ghost collectable in Twilight Princess is a standard part of the Zelda recipe and fills out its role nicely, this is where its characteristics begin and end. Actually they're kind of annoying to get because you have to turn into a wolf first and then fight with the ghost. There is bug collecting in both Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, but in both cases they’re both clearly pointing to conventions established by the series' basic formula. It's nothing like Ocarina, where the spider effectively captures the feeling of being out at night and expecting something to scratch around in the darkness.
In TP it seems like they were kind of losing the essence of the prior games as a result of following form too strictly, Skyward Sword and Link Between Worlds and the DS games seems more like semi-intentionally breaking away the muddy, overlapping parts of the games and introducing elements in their place that are streamlined, smart design choices. So the weapons and other elements in Worlds are fixed, but now lack all their holistic properties. Nothing in the game is going to feel like exploring at nighttime, though the different parts of the game may click together all in a very sensible way. Frankly this follows other trends by other Nintendo franchises where the intellectual properties are fully manifested as exaggerated, safe, and reliable representations of themselves. But this isn't all or even mostly an outcome of business, I do think that there are very real creative difficulties in reproducing the qualities of a good Zelda game.
Speaking purely creatively, I don't think it's that surprising that initial attempts at these games sort of hit the mark perfectly. When you have no preconception of how you should approach a game like this, you just have to be honest with how things fit or don't fit the mood/tone. It's later on that you get faint echoes once you establish too strongly a certain formal method of thinking about and producing these games.
Anybody remembers the existential anxiety the game could induce, eg. the future Kakariko's graveyard race through NEON torch flames in darkness (whyyy???? why NOW, why not earlier or later in the game??), dark hollow ambience instead of merry happy We're Racing - music, all the while trying to process that cool kind gravekeeper is fucking dead and still around to obsessively challenge you to a race??? aaaa.I get what you mean. I don't want to make this the Zelda thread, but I was just playing the game for the first time in years and it made me think of these posts. When I was playing, it struck me how the tech of the 64 pushed the developers to use simple graphics. And this creates striking visual features. A statue dominates an entire room, a neon torch path lights a makeshift raceway. How exciting to play with graphics in this way without the burden of creating a realistic enough scenario with enough textures and random debris everywhere.
We've had at least one extremely good Zelda theory thread (http://saltworld.net/forums/topic/12441-scraps-scraps-scraps-zelda-nintendo-sraps-scraps-scraps-graphics-of-video-game/) beforethe tru golden ageof sw. we're still there but with less people, I hit +like on all ur posts
I stuck with the thing even though I wasn't having a particularly good time as late at 10 hours into it, but I found the game had some life when you get some of the worthwhile companions to be stumbling around the game with you. It was a surprise, as Bethesda's dialogue and character design are almost invariably awful and without positive merit, but a couple of the companions in F4 are actually pretty interesting people.
I dunno. The best you can hope for in the game is to have a couple worthwhile moments. For every interesting quest, there are going to be ten that nobody gives a shit about and are thoroughly forgettable. You CAN have some fun with the game, and I think there are enough worthwhile moments to keep me from dismissing the game entirely, but you kinda need to figure out how to approach it right. Still, not a game I would suggest to anybody who isn't really hopelessly interested in the Fallout series and doesn't has a ton of free time to spare. And even then, you need to expect a game where you have to figure out the fun yourself rather than just hope to stumble onto it.
While I don't agree with the conclusions you draw, I certainly respect how you came about those conclusions when it came to Undertale. For instance, you were right in inferring that the story isn't really about anything, I just kinda assumed that must be the point. Without some overarching need to pursue some grand narrative, you are given more freedom to find relevance in the moment-to-moment interactions (boiling that down to "HEY CHECK OUT THIS OBSCURE REFERENCE! HOW COOL IS THAT?!" is a rather glib interpretation, but I see how in it's presentation how hard it is to not get that distinct impression). I dunno, I just found it a bit disappointing how you gave Fallout 4 much more of a chance before dismissing it simply because it was built in a way to require that much more out of you before you.Well, to be fair, your proportional math here is slightly off. I played and disliked less than ten percent of Fallout before I started enjoying it at all, while I gave up on Undertale because I was in the vicinity of halfway through it and it became clear to me that the game was not designed for an audience with a zero tolerance stance on pun overuse.
For instance you could have beaten Undertale twice in the time you spent looking for interesting companions in Fallout 4. But I don't want to harp on it because it'd be hypocritical given that I didn't really give Fallout 4 hardly any chance at all. (It's partly an issue of access, I don't have a system that can play it and I don't want to buy a new system FOR it, but even if I had, I am far too jaded to have the patience required by the kind of games where you have to invest a lot of yourself into it before you even get a LITTLE bit of enjoyment back out of it)
I'm not saying you NEED to play it multiple times. I'm just saying if you were able to understand that much about how the game operates, you can have a reasonable expectation that the other playthroughs won't offer you the same kind of experience your first playthrough did, as long you are deliberate in your approach. Even if you don't want to go through the trouble of playing this game to give it a second chance, I still think you should at least look up the other playthroughs online, and spoil yourself on the diverging aspects of the alternate stories. Just to immediately know what the "hidden intention" was, and be able to decide for yourself if spoiling it makes you feel like you've missed out by not playing it firsthand. I'm assuming you'll probably just decide you saved yourself time and trouble by doing so, but I still think it is something worth at least knowing about.
(For one thing, if you really do hate the game that much, you owe it to yourself to at least do the playthrough where you kill literally as many characters as mechanically possible. Simply because FUCK that game! FUCK everyone in it! Just fuck it all!)Uh......
Indeed the Phoenix Wright games are awesome. I've played through them all about 5 times and it has still not gotten old. The latest for the 3DS is easily my least favorite in every way (crime scenes aren't as good, the cases are EXTREMELY situational and far-fetched) but I still enjoy it enough. I love the characters, and I really love the back and forth with seriousness and playfulness of the series as a whole.Ah, thank you for saying this actually! I had actually been avoiding playing the 3DS one after hearing that Shu Takumi wasn't involved in it. I loved the Phoenix Wright games, but my interest faded when the series morphed into Ace Attorney Investigations for a while, which is where Takumi stopped being involved in the series, and I felt the writing took a pretty notable nosedive and much of the charm was lost entirely. You've kinda confirmed my suspicions here, I think.
No no, we can both be right. I don't mean to deny every person who might have a positive opinion to share about the game. I compare it to Earthbound with the shell thing not because its surface qualities form a similar niche to earthbound, although they do, (super down to earth quirk-filled rpg i guess) but because they've both got such distinctive styles that they hit a sizable portion of people RIGHT IN THE HEART and defending it is like defending goodness itself - it's like, how couldn't you enjoy playing this? How could anyone play Earthbound and decide "these graphics are shit" without hearing that opinion from someone else and blindly adopting it? I'll never know, but there are plenty of people who feel that way, and it must be tiring for them to see all these people who it happened to hit precisely the right parts of the brain at the right time in their lives rave about how insanely clever every line is. I think if Undertale had come out and I had played it like eight years ago I would have loved it, and I don't mean that it's childish or immature or anything at all, just that my tastes fit it better back then and I've gotten all snooty lately (I'm right there with some of y'all on this forum in not playing games all that often for how much i think about them).Small Green Cicada posted a reply as I was typing this up, and I certainly do agree with what he says. I don't WANT to be one of those folks that's just jumping in to heartfeltedly defend this game because of some immutable shell, and that's not really what I'm trying to say here. The game is indeed flawed, and the culture that has sprung up around it is most certainly grating...
re: fallout 4, yeah. there definitely are a few scattered moments in the game that are totally okay experiences. the rest of the game is bland, but doesn't stand out for being exceptionally bad. an intelligent person could play it and not hate it. but part of the reason I hate it is because they've brought the series and all its merits to a screeching halt, and afaik people actually love it.I also thought Hancock and Curie were ok too, though I hesitate to even tell you this because I don't want you to think that you're missing something that's really specifically worth launching the game to experience. It's more that this is something to do if you find the act of playing the game inescapable.
I liked some of the characters too. I think I only got around having Piper, Nick and Deacon as companions, and only Deacon after I already started to hate the game. I also thought their presence felt contrived, though. they're like isolated cinematic moments that don't fit in with what the game poses itself as being about. that's the part I where I thought they were emulating gta.
I'd be champing at the bit for a spinoff handled by Obsidian again, or whatever companies guys like chris avellone and j.e. sawyer work for now. I guess even a spinoff would be bound to use the clunky incredible ground-breaking settlement and item modification systems, though that might not be terrible. I was actually kind of excited when I first heard about settlement customization, as one of the things that slightly annoyed me in F3 and NV was the lack of options in player housing (I roleplay characters I guess, eg if I'm playing a low-intelligence, low-charisma hermit who suffered severe brain damage from Benny's gunshot, I want my character's residence to reflect that). it's just that instead of expanding upon the concept player housing as was maybe initially intended, settlements ended up being a faceless and repetitive fort-building mechanic tied to the boring, annoying, and non-roleplay-friendly settler minigame. gotta scrounge up resources to built another turret to defend another settlement of stupid one-liner npcs. whoops, turret's destroyed, build another one. it's funre: fallout 4, yeah. there definitely are a few scattered moments in the game that are totally okay experiences. the rest of the game is bland, but doesn't stand out for being exceptionally bad. an intelligent person could play it and not hate it. but part of the reason I hate it is because they've brought the series and all its merits to a screeching halt, and afaik people actually love it.I also thought Hancock and Curie were ok too, though I hesitate to even tell you this because I don't want you to think that you're missing something that's really specifically worth launching the game to experience. It's more that this is something to do if you find the act of playing the game inescapable.
I liked some of the characters too. I think I only got around having Piper, Nick and Deacon as companions, and only Deacon after I already started to hate the game. I also thought their presence felt contrived, though. they're like isolated cinematic moments that don't fit in with what the game poses itself as being about. that's the part I where I thought they were emulating gta.
But yeah, even though I was able to shake some enjoyment out of what is not a very well designed game, this does leave me pretty discouraged for what the Fallout series is becoming. I think I was able to generally dismiss the whole settlements thing as potentially some isolated incident in the series, but after seeing that the focus of the DLCs thus far has EXCLUSIVELY BEEN the settlements, I'm substantially less hopeful that it was a quirk specific to Fallout 4 rather than a new direction for the series. They're really, actually serious about this apparently, which was something I was more able to give them the benefit of the doubt over before the DLCs. I'm left kinda skeptical that I'm even going to continue desiring to play the series after this unless Bethesda again outsources a Fallout spinoff game to a more reliable company.
listen to the fuckin man!!!! i actually had whole lot to say than this but i spent +½h reading the rest of the posts so gulp you are a victim of good posting season i guess. we'll get right back some day...QuoteAnybody remembers the existential anxiety the game could induce, eg. the future Kakariko's graveyard race through NEON torch flames in darkness (whyyy???? why NOW, why not earlier or later in the game??), dark hollow ambience instead of merry happy We're Racing - music, all the while trying to process that cool kind gravekeeper is fucking dead and still around to obsessively challenge you to a race??? aaaa.I get what you mean. I don't want to make this the Zelda thread, but... here I, Zlavoj "Zelda" Zizek, make a pr post that I had to even print for myself (as so ever eloquently describes some new shit... man how do you do this writing stuff? how do i manipulate people like my text???"
The combination of aiming the industry at children + the graphical and system limitations are huge factors to what made older games so evocative/afforded them such bizarre and unparalleled experience, and why games nowadays rarely capture similar magic.I had to copy this post just because SOMEBODY JUST GREW ANOTHER PAIR!!!! *plays ACDC like SUPER LOUD outside famous utubers house, all glasses break at the same time in neighbourhood*
it's harder to do interesting things with a video game world that is meticulously modeled to look like a movie or like life unless you bring in something totally out of place (e.g. head popping out of ground nightmare scene in that n64 flying game, the glitches in red dead redemption where the wildlife and people get their models and behaviors mixed up). i and probably a million other nerds have said this [in our nasal, whining voices] and i'll say it again: virtually everything past gamecube level/2007-ish graphics, commensurate with increasing recency, looks like complete dog shit. it just looks really bad to have super fucking detailed models and shaders, looks like literally nothing, not life or even like a video game, and i feel like some aspect of gamers has evolved and left me behind, because the vast majority of modern games completely lack any sort of style whatsoever and i don't understand how anyone can be satisfied by them. games should look strange as fuck, not like thousand dollars worth of dolls and dollhouses made in maya. i think humans conceptualize better games when they are regarded as disposable immature faux-medium outside the sphere of artistry (so that every meaningful/well-concocted/inspiring moment seems like an outlier/pleasant surprise, makes the rare moving vidgame moment all the more poignant).
NES black as a concept vanishes; games now have nothing "behind" them at all. (some... GTA has bluescreen, now the best you can hope for is a distinctive skybox...) Glitches are less likely to emerge as the result of irregularly designed systems colliding and more likely to emerge as boring bullshit. I watched some glitch videos for more recent games ie 2013 tomb raider and such - it was more on the level of "a weirdly long canned killing animation concluded with the generic enemy guy ending up on top of a nearby barrel". therefore, everything's boring bullshit. qed
We've had at least one extremely good Zelda theory thread (http://saltworld.net/forums/topic/12441-scraps-scraps-scraps-zelda-nintendo-sraps-scraps-scraps-graphics-of-video-game/) before - i just missed it - so i'd love to hear anything else people have to think about it. that's a really stellar thread to read through anyway. I don't have anything to add about zelda but i love to read people who grew up with it bloviate. oh, i can add this: My first experiences with Zelda were playing it through Zelda Classic on my pc, so i permanently expect the game to start up with screenful of animated flames + crackling sound.
Undertale, edc, hundley, guana... all...
earthbound
fallout 4
PS I am an odd hermit, so I don't know if this game's existence is common knowledge or not, but if you really loved the hell out of Phoenix Wright, you probably owe it to yourself to try Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Trick:_Phantom_Detective). It's made by Shu Takumi and, while it's really quite different than Phoenix Wright, I think it possesses a lot of the qualities that made Phoenix Wright a compelling series of games. I actually AVOIDED PLAYING THIS GAME because it has one of the most uninteresting titles I've ever heard, but it's actually surprisingly good stuff, charming in much the same way that I thought Phoenix Wright was charming.
Like I said, I actually have no idea if this game's existence and ties to Phoenix Wright is common knowledge or not, so accept my apologies if I am eagerly passing forth UTTERLY VALUELESS INFORMATION. All I know is that *I* had actually heard nothing at all about this Ghost Trick game until I accidentally stumbled onto it, which is never some greater indication of whether or not anybody else knows anything about it.
I had to copy this post just because SOMEBODY JUST GREW ANOTHER PAIR!!!! *plays ACDC like SUPER LOUD outside famous utubers house, all glasses break at the same time in neighbourhood*LMAO I can't legally buy alcohol and I already type and look down on things like an old man Fortran programming Atari Game Wizard, maybe when I'm a little older I'll switch all my opinions around. "This isn't so bad. Look how realistic the trees are. It's like I'm really killing soldiers in a woods. Much preferable to all the stupid bullshit this year (2032). Did you know the trees in Call of Mario aren't even hand-modeled but auto-generated from voxel seeds from satellite scans? Wotta crock."
The bosses in Earthbound are mostly amazing. They talk shit like bosses tend to do but somehow having a dumpy mushroom call you weak and useless to your friends is way more cruel and intimidating than a, uh, big dragon or whatever saying it.
I never liked fucking around with "resources" and hospitals and such so I would always rewind a bit when anybody died and cheat. So all my eb playthroughs have zero game overs and zero deaths. I don't feel any shame in this, I imagine it would be pretty fun to play a game where enemies hurting you just knocked you back in time and you had to do something arcane to game the rng enough to be on your side and not even be in a situation where you're hittable at all.
Other bad things in eb: heatstroke (same thing, resource fuckery), limited inventory space, pyramid level (boring), Poo isn't interesting and I only grudgingly accept his place in the game because MU TRAINING.
underdiscussed and underpropagated good things: The Clumsy Robot can use a turn to eat a bologna sandwich and the game LIES to you and says it rejuvenates its HP. It actually does nothing. What on earth is that??! Yeah!!!!
there's not nearly enough content for rest of game post-Fourson.
I always forget this, but it's totally true. My Earthbound memories get fuzzy and fade right after fourside because after that you're off doing all this fantasy/boating/lost worlds shit and that never stuck with me like the towns do. Oh yeah, and the PYRAMIDS bullshit.
Actually... because Yume Nikki is on my mind... because I played YN before EB in a delicious subversion of classic gaming experience... I just remembered that a huge part of my initial playthroughs of EB was noticing and reveling in how very small elements would suddenly recall Yume nikki to me... YN being an indie game made by an EXTREMELY MYSTERIOUS japanese dev called Kikiyama, about whom we know nothing and who vanished after the current revision of the game came out. I had heard someone describe as a "love letter to the Mother series" but it wasn't until I played through EB that I realized just how exactly some certain elements... themes... graphics and tone transferred over. It was fucking mind blowing to me, having been obsessed with yn in my youth to an embarrassing Naruto-otaku-fan level, suddenly having the origin of the game's numerous varied trees, colors, musical concepts, et al. and most of all perspectives forcefully peeled open and made visible. It's mostly Earthbound-stylings adapted to this crazy dark colorful dream dimension, but the dev also clearly grew up with Mother 1 since there's a whole AREA that turns everything including the menus into Famicom graphics, and while you're in there you can travel on a "world map" that if opened in RPG maker has ENTIRE CONTINENTS you can't visit, and at one point you can walk down this forest path into a tiny house that leads you down a massive dungeon of staircases, and the track + atmosphere while you're the walking up across the NES-lush woods is fucking unbelievable.
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Except YN is made up of nothing EXCEPT those sax man moments that you're talking about, find a character hidden off some mournful and beautiful area, interact with them and a strange and unique sound plays like from another SNES-based world... Actually that EXACT theme describes many or most characters you can find in YN. It's all about that! The game barely talks to you except for instructions at the beginning and then you're dropped into a vast world that demands no explanation (but which i personally view as an immensely sad one). And in that sense it could be considered an extension/distillation of Earthbound's disregard for the audience like what you said. Which is a good insight.
re: Antigame: YN = Mother 1 and 2 multiplied by LSD: The Dream Emulator
YN and LSD are two of my favoritest games of all time, and it's because they have a combination of brain-exploding world design and a total disregard for enforcing a goal or narrative. YN has a win condition but it's seriously tacked on. LSD, god knows what's going on with that game, there's an ending movie on the disc but during the time I had my finger on the pulse of the fanbase nobody was sure how you get it.
I guess bottom-line is that don't we all still live in our spiritual Onett?ahahaha woooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
searching trash cans for rotten Hamburgers, strutting around lopsided downtown cautiously from corner to corner, trying to figure out who are normal friendly NPCS and who are hostile "trap" npc's... then getting our teeth kicked in bloody by child-drawing weird Western smiling hoodie chavs within seconds, while some kind of Screech Skronk Scraagh- Dub influenced scratchy, silly Rocksteady-Funk is playing in background?
Then waking up in local hospital while Ragnar's favourite SNES soundfont Dub/Ska is playing in background? really... what's. the. difference. a mirror to our times...
hahahaha, i missed you man. :D :D :D :love: :love: :love:Quotefallout 4hundley you should give your characters +20 constitution and 4 intelligence because holy shit at your resilience with some of these corp vidcon series ... nay, dont worry, its almost admiration though, "what integrity, what willpower to dredge thru his beloved interests, this man certainly has the balls to live his life... maby u goit high wisdom as well...
ok well i again wanted to say stuff but i think it pr much misses the point of new vegas (im not even bringing up earlier games) but hey it's skyrim makers so i don't think it's a surprise and fruitful convo to continue further anyways?
PS I am an odd hermit, so I don't know if this game's existence is common knowledge or not, but if you really loved the hell out of Phoenix Wright, you probably owe it to yourself to try Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Trick:_Phantom_Detective). It's made by Shu Takumi and, while it's really quite different than Phoenix Wright, I think it possesses a lot of the qualities that made Phoenix Wright a compelling series of games. I actually AVOIDED PLAYING THIS GAME because it has one of the most uninteresting titles I've ever heard, but it's actually surprisingly good stuff, charming in much the same way that I thought Phoenix Wright was charming.
Like I said, I actually have no idea if this game's existence and ties to Phoenix Wright is common knowledge or not, so accept my apologies if I am eagerly passing forth UTTERLY VALUELESS INFORMATION. All I know is that *I* had actually heard nothing at all about this Ghost Trick game until I accidentally stumbled onto it, which is never some greater indication of whether or not anybody else knows anything about it.
!!! I'm pretty sure... well, i HOPE...*sweats profusely* i PRAY... that people know that game was one of the top games of our times? i spend some two days just watching the longplay of it (the guy playing it knew every puzzle and only messed up few times). fuck cave story fuck fez fuck undertale, this is the shit. it's uh a pretty left-field surprise but wasn't it like that in the old days? somebody has an vision and own way to do things, then pulls it out... unsuspecting poor sucka-kids stare at Darklands cover and make the worst decision of their lives there and then...
btw as a background: prior to watching the game i barely had any working experience with what kind of art or story or interaction style Shu Takumi has... i just think the game stood really well on it's own merits. very little metagaming shit or self-conscious stuff, just some really nerve-wracking, addicting episode structure...
but then they decided to not really have the fog do anything when it comes to the actual gameplay or exploration, so it's not something that will bother you as much as they narratively want it to.that's like the fallout 4 theme I guess. you gotta wander the wasteland and it's gonna be super scary and dangerous and there are deathclaws which are the scariest things in the world! whoops lol here's a suit of power armor and a minigun as soon as you reach the surface and now you can kill this deathclaw right here no problem haha epic d;^) have fun
Oblivion has been the height of my Bethesda experience but only after Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul and Mart's Monster Mod coupled with a gazillion other mods. It was a fantastic experience that no other game has been able to live up to, I must have crawled every single dungeon in that game. I probably got burnt out on the formula after that.I never played an elder scrolls game before Skyrim. I have a dark, disgusting secret about that game which is, I did enjoy it *audience feigns surprise, pityingly obliging the expectantly grinning, impish man* it definitely had a very dumb, sensational shell to it, but I found that with the right DLC installed it was still quite possible to eek out a decent experience. I remember the DLC quests being better than anything in the main game, hitting upon various genres of horror I find somewhat under-explored in video game titles.
eeew, you didn't take their advice though, did you? like in that first bit you sorta have to use either the power armor/minigun since you're pretty much destined to be unprepared for that fight, but the game is pretty shitty if you use the power armor at all after that. i guess i'm talking mostly about the glowing sea, really, since the game kinda half-heartedly encourages you to go through that with some power armor, but if you ignore their advice it can become a pretty honestly terrifying and effective location if someone does what i did and go into it at a lower level without a whole lot more than a hazmat suit, a sniper rifle, and a pocketful of radaway. the more i think about it, the more i think the idea of throwing all the game's options at you right there at that first deathclaw fight was actually fairly clever, as it generally gives you an early primer for how you can choose to play the game. it worked that away for me, anyway, as i saw what using the power armor all the time was like and realized that this would make for a boring experience and elected against it, though i'm sure it had the opposite effect for other people.Quotebut then they decided to not really have the fog do anything when it comes to the actual gameplay or exploration, so it's not something that will bother you as much as they narratively want it to.that's like the fallout 4 theme I guess. you gotta wander the wasteland and it's gonna be super scary and dangerous and there are deathclaws which are the scariest things in the world! whoops lol here's a suit of power armor and a minigun as soon as you reach the surface and now you can kill this deathclaw right here no problem haha epic d;^) have fun
RE: stolen DS. I lived with a guy back in 2010/2011 and he had a problem with drugs and prostitutes. Didn't really bother me because he was/is a nice guy and a good friend of mine, and I never really realized how much his problems could affect me until we started getting broken into regularly. At one point during a town festival (that I was attending of course) three guys broke into the house and grabbed all kinds of shit. My work laptop, my roommate's TV, some other shit that doesn't matter, and of course my Nintendo DS case with probably 30 games stuffed inside. I fucking loved my DS, I had all the Phoenix Wrights, Hotel Dusk, the Pokemons, some random dungeon crawler, Sim City, Mortal Kombat 3, the quirky but fun Brain games, Rune Factory 4, blah blah blah I'm forgetting so many games but I still have all the cases for these games and I want to cry every time I go through them. It was kinda funny though because these asshats were on bicycles (neighbors saw them and called cops) and were trying to ride off down the road with a 50+" TV in their arms lol. So yes the Phoenix Wright games were certainly the highlight of my NDS experience, but I really enjoyed a lot of my other games. It was an incredible system with some really fun interesting unique games. Hundley it's funny that you mention that the 3DS seems like it is nothing but sequels because all I have are sequels. Pokemon, Zelda, Zelda, Zelda, Mario, Mario, Resident Evil, Phoenix Wright. I don't have a single unique game and it's kind of depressing. Maybe it's my fault for not having as much disposable income as I used to. Maybe it's the industry's fault for not taking chances. This is why PC gaming is so important, and why I enjoy indie games far far more than AAA titles. Fallout 4 has really cemented that belief now, especially since they are REALLY dragging ass with mod tools. Oblivion has been the height of my Bethesda experience but only after Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul and Mart's Monster Mod coupled with a gazillion other mods. It was a fantastic experience that no other game has been able to live up to, I must have crawled every single dungeon in that game. I probably got burnt out on the formula after that.IMHO this is what this topic should be like more often. When we get to talking about how the drug problems of our friends have affected our video game experience. I'm not being ironic, I honestly mean this. This is the good stuff, when these dumb experiences of playing videogames have some greater context beyond firing up a console between furious wanking sessions. I just wish you had a more fulfilling story to tell than a bunch of shithead burglars on bicycles. Maybe they should have considered stealing a car first??? At least you can be content with the fact that it was entirely doubtful that their crime spree lasted long with such deplorable getaway plans. The world is not usually very forgiving of notably stupid people like that.
eeew, you didn't take their advice though, did you?naw. after that scene I still habitually collected power armor and left them standing around at the red rocket just in case the game ever made them necessary, which never happened before I quit playing.
I never played an elder scrolls game before Skyrim. I have a dark, disgusting secret about that game which is, I did enjoy it *audience feigns surprise, pityingly obliging the expectantly grinning, impish man* it definitely had a very dumb, sensational shell to it, but I found that with the right DLC installed it was still quite possible to eek out a decent experience. I remember the DLC quests being better than anything in the main game, hitting upon various genres of horror I find somewhat under-explored in video game titles.Skyrim isn't a bad game, they learned a lot of lessons from Morrowind and Oblivion's gameplay mistakes and sans- mods or exploits it's the most playable Elder Scrolls as a result. Not as good as Morrowind once you learn how to fix all of Morrowind's gameplay problems with potions.
I've thought about playing oblivion before, reading through some of the wiki pages on some of the quests and characters. I couldn't get interested in it. I think skyrim must have just come in a perfect storm of boredom, middle-of-nowhere loneliness, and lack of funds to do anything more worthwhile with my time.
Skyrim isn't a bad game, they learned a lot of lessons from Morrowind and Oblivion's gameplay mistakes and sans- mods or exploits it's the most playable Elder Scrolls as a result. Not as good as Morrowind once you learn how to fix all of Morrowind's gameplay problems with potions.Forget whatever I've said, http://enderal.com/]Enderal (http://[url=http://enderal.com/%5DEnderal)[/url], the sequel to Nehrim (the total conversion mod for Oblivion) just got its english translation. Worth a look even if you don't really care for unmodded Skyrim.
Dang t hat looks cool. I always wanted to try Shiren, have you played the Torneko games that are kind of in the same series? Wiki says Torneko: The Last Hope (lol that title) was really well received in Japan (BIG SCORES From Famitsu!!!) and in Western world it was hated and despised for being "silly" and "too hard".
Also I almost bought No Man's Sky today but then I googled it and discovered that this is the sort of game that I don't like. So I didn't buy it and am instead going to cut dead skin off my foot with a knife or have a good wank or read Joyce to my cat or listen to shitty 90s electronic music for several hours. Thank You.
Technobabylon is an ok game. It's no Beneath a Steel Sky, which is the most similar game I can think of, but it's still kind of neat in parts.Also I almost bought No Man's Sky today but then I googled it and discovered that this is the sort of game that I don't like. So I didn't buy it and am instead going to cut dead skin off my foot with a knife or have a good wank or read Joyce to my cat or listen to shitty 90s electronic music for several hours. Thank You.
ha not that I own anything past PS2/gamecube anyway but I was hoping no man's sky would be cool just cause i like the idea of procedural graphics/music and stuff too bad everything that uses those techniques seems to suck ass (see Spore)
I just got a new controller so I can finally play on my PC from the comfort of my bed.You have the Steam version? If so, I can add you to my friends list and you'll be able to use my pawn for free.
Currently trying to finish Dragon's Dogma so I can thin out that backlog.
That is probably an impossible task though.
Technobabylon is an ok game. It's no Beneath a Steel Sky, which is the most similar game I can think of, but it's still kind of neat in parts.Also I almost bought No Man's Sky today but then I googled it and discovered that this is the sort of game that I don't like. So I didn't buy it and am instead going to cut dead skin off my foot with a knife or have a good wank or read Joyce to my cat or listen to shitty 90s electronic music for several hours. Thank You.
ha not that I own anything past PS2/gamecube anyway but I was hoping no man's sky would be cool just cause i like the idea of procedural graphics/music and stuff too bad everything that uses those techniques seems to suck ass (see Spore)
Quote from: Selfish Dream link=topic=FIX_TOPIC_ID.msgFIX_POST_ID#msgFIX_POST_ID date=1480425124>I just got a new controller so I can finally play on my PC from the comfort of my bed.You have the Steam version? If so, I can add you to my friends list and you'll be able to use my pawn for free.
Currently trying to finish Dragon's Dogma so I can thin out that backlog.
That is probably an impossible task though.
What's the first Persona you played? I don't have anything newer than the wii, but is the PSX Persona any good?The PSX Persona actually was the first one I played, and I know it was in 1999 that I first played the thing, because I remember trading in my recently purchased copy of Silent Hill for store credit to pick up a used copy with a badly cracked jewel case that looked like it had been sitting at the bottom of a swamp for several weeks. I loved the fucking shit out of that game when I played it back then, but that actually was over half my life ago, and I haven't gotten all the way through it since. So any advice is going to be colored by some heavy nostalgia for the thing, since I haven't really sat down and really earnestly played the thing in a period of time closing in on 20 years.
I always liked the idea but I know those games are full of classically JRPG style finickiness, so I would probably take a walkthrough with me like the trash gamer I am! I've never really gotten into playing those sorts of demanding or secretive RPGs but I absolutely love thinking about them, reading about them etc. so I'm always on the lookout for one I can actually have a real good time getting decent at.Actually, you would definitely want/need to use a walkthrough for the first PSX Persona game, at least for certain bits. They pull some bullshit with a TRUE ENDING that's only accessible if you answer specific dialogue choices a certain way throughout the game, so you'll probably want to be aware of those choices going into it. The game doesn't give you any hint of this, so if you answer any of these choices wrong throughout the game, they cut the game short by a handful of hours and give you a FUCK YOU ending. My only suggestion with that is that you shouldn't EXCLUSIVELY use a walkthrough when talking with the demons. There's generally an ideal way to talk with each of them, but I think much of the game's atmosphere is lost if you miss all that wonderful incomprehensible dialogue. Beyond that, it probably is good to get a little lost in the game, since that probably would contribute to the atmosphere of it all, but I wouldn't suggest avoiding outside help to the point where you can't get through the game.
Other than that, I'd probably have to say this game is a great example of a finicky RPG that's still actually quite playable, so it's probably a good choice if you want something like that, or at least the best suggestion I'd be comfortable making for games like that. It's a little hard to get used to it all, and just navigating the world can be a little frustrating, but I think it's worth it. It's surprisingly literate and atmospheric for a game so rough around the edges. Or so I thought when I was in my teens playing this thing, anyway.Dude fuck yeah! Thanks so much. Every paragraph of your reply is fantastic. I ended up playing Persona two days ago, fell asleep during a battle and played a little yesterday morning. It's a FUCKING AWESOME GAME there were so many times my jaw dropped at how grand and perfect certain atmospheric touches were in incarnated Atlus-ness. The dungeons are so great - I know we had a first person dungeon crawler thread here... I would dig it up but all I can add now is "Persona sure is cool guys, durr". And that image thecatamites tweeted from some fleischer cartoon of a spider crawling around a dungeon which moves like fp jrpg camera. I love how, like you said, how familiar everything is with these simple characters in a conventional anime setting but there's this bizarre surreal ecumenical twist to it. It's kind of funny that all the women so far have been pleasant people and almost all the men are douchebags.
- LOL pretending this takes place in the USA (japanese outfits, everything)
- "Talk to the plant" awesome way to direct you to the save point
- after Baroque it's so relaxing to not have a timer ticking on your life, although looks like the moon is changing so i guess it is
- some really good writing lol "I'd go crazy if I spent as much time in the hospital as Mary."
it isn't really an age thing to me, or i don't think so. it seems like a taste thing. it's just middle of the road, [...] that level of 'we're just ordinary folks writing a game for normal people' kind of thing. nothin goin on.that's a LOT said in just couple of lines, not just about videogames but of the times themselves as well...
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Has anyone here played pillars of eternity?I was a kickstarter supporter or whatever it's called. Josh Sawyer is great and was a significant part of what made Fallout:NV so good, and I was a big fan of the baldur's gate series, so I was pretty stoked about it. then I tried to play it a year or so ago and just couldn't get into it. unlike when I was a kid playing baldur's gate, it felt like a waste of time learning the lore of the world or studying how to make a good character or team setup. I do think this was a problem with me rather than the game to some extent, over the past several years I just haven't been able to give enough of a fuck about anything and it's an issue. unlike BG or NWN2 I just didn't find any of the characters interesting though. I got to the point in the first game where you make it to the big baldurs gate-style city, met like a dwarf or something who seemed maybe interesting but wouldn't fit into my party setup. I should start over and give it another try sometime.
I happened upon it just browsing around I think if I remember correctly trying to find a game with narrative that wasn’t fuckin boring and it’s so good, it’s so incredibly good.
I think it’s made by the same developers of baulders gate? It’s Kickstarter founded, a little old maybe 3 or 4 years.
It’s really really good, reminds me of those old school strategy rpgs like the earlier fallouts. Set in a kind of dungeons and dragons world but with a really distinctly esoteric feel. It has these text driven narratives in it like one of those lit rpgs. You can completely customize your character, make choices that build their personalities and make decisions that directly effect the world you live in.
They have a sequel that’s really good too. I’m playing the first one for the second time.
The narrative and writing like the banter and lord is so well done, thoughtful and rich.
I really like it, it’d be cool to see something like that done in the way Barkley shut up and jam or something with a kind of ridiculousness and humor of the way some people used to write around here.
It’s probably my fav right now
Has anyone here played pillars of eternity?
I happened upon it just browsing around I think if I remember correctly trying to find a game with narrative that wasn’t fuckin boring and it’s so good, it’s so incredibly good.
I think it’s made by the same developers of baulders gate? It’s Kickstarter founded, a little old maybe 3 or 4 years.
It’s really really good, reminds me of those old school strategy rpgs like the earlier fallouts. Set in a kind of dungeons and dragons world but with a really distinctly esoteric feel pillow. It has these text driven narratives in it like one of those lit rpgs. You can completely customize your character, make choices that build their personalities and make decisions that directly effect the world you live in.
They have a sequel that’s really good too. I’m playing the first one for the second time.
The narrative and writing like the banter and lord is so well done, thoughtful and rich.
I really like it, it’d be cool to see something like that done in the way Barkley shut up and jam or something with a kind of ridiculousness and humor of the way some people used to write around here.
It’s probably my fav right now